It appears xdg-open isn't always able to handle mailto: hyperlinks (see
https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=61942).
I filed bug #1863625 to request an xdg-email wrapper in snapd.
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** Changed in: chromium-browser (Ubuntu)
Status: Fix Committed => Fix Released
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Title:
[snap] mailto: links don't work in chromium
To
An exception was added for chromium to be allowed to symlink /usr/bin
/xdg-open in the review tools (see https://git.launchpad.net/review-
tools/commit/?id=31c894178a8fd110b9f65f0ee532b7e11384f8b8).
Waiting for this to be released.
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Unfortunately the resulting snap fails the store automated review (see
bug #1850553).
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Title:
[snap] mailto: links don't work in chromium
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Awesome Olivier, thanks for the prompt fix, that seems like an elegant
solution! Looking forward to the roll-out.
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Title:
[snap] mailto: links
Tentative fix: https://git.launchpad.net/~chromium-team/chromium-
browser/+git/snap-from-
source/commit/?id=ba0e67bef8a8ee78dc7a9c5c7626cf935194c9e0
I was initially going to patch the upstream source code (OpenExternal())
to always call XDGOpen() regardless of the URL scheme, but making xdg-
That commit was broken, here is the working one:
https://git.launchpad.net/~chromium-team/chromium-browser/+git/snap-
from-source/commit/?id=fc3c7c10b0322672a05f0a6eba38d598bd4ac644
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** Summary changed:
- Mailto: links don't work in chromium snap anymore
+ [snap] mailto: links don't work in chromium
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Title:
[snap] mailto:
