Are you using a Windows based system? If so, what is the output of the
following commands?
assoc http
assoc https
ftype http
ftype https
For example, this is what I have on mine:
> assoc http
http=URL:HyperText Transfer Protocol
> assoc https
https=URL:HyperText Transfer Protocol with Privacy
> ftype http
http="C:\Program Files (x86)\Firefox\firefox.exe" -osint -url "%1"
> ftype https
https="C:\Program Files (x86)\Firefox\firefox.exe" -osint -url "%1"
Additionally, if you type the following into the command line, does it
launch the browser as expected?
> start http://www.google.com
I don't have a Windows 8 environment to test in, so hopefully these
commands are still relevant in that OS. The HTTP and HTTPS protocol
handlers should be in the registry as well. When multiple URI Handlers
exist for a given scheme, the default needs to be chosen in (Control
Panel\Programs\Default Programs\Set Default Programs) again, this is for
Windows 7, I'm uncertain if the instructions are relevant to Windows 8.
A quick google search shows the following:
http://www.c-sharpcorner.com/UploadFile/6cde20/set-default-programs-in-windows-8/
Hope this is of some assistance. Pidgin just invokes the handler when a
link is clicked on, it's up to your system to handle the rest from
there. So there must be a misconfiguration somewhere in the chain.
Possibly due to a buggy upgrade from Win7 to Win8?
On 12/13/2012 9:42 AM, Jake Lauer wrote:
Sorry to be a bother, but does anyone have more info on this?
--
Jake Lauer
http://jakelauer.com
On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 11:17 AM, Jake Lauer <[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Yes, this is for normal HTTP links. The debug window shows this
when I click on a link:
(11:16:26) winpidgin: Error opening URI: http://google.com error: 5
--
Jake Lauer
http://jakelauer.com
On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 11:14 AM, Daniel Atallah
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 1:54 PM, Jake Lauer
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> I just managed to reinstall without any settings being saved
by removing the
> .purple folder from my AppData files. With a clean, brand
new installation,
> the problem still persists.
There's nothing related to the browser in the configuration, so it
isn't really surprising that blowing away the configuration
wouldn't
have any effect.
What kind of links are these? Are they "normal" http://...
links or
something else?
What does the debug log (Help->Debug Window) say when you
click on one
of these links (you need to have the window open at the time
the event
occurs for it to have any effect)?
-D
>
> On Mon, Dec 10, 2012 at 10:49 AM, Jake Lauer
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>
>> Daniel,
>>
>> I have attempted to fix the problem by switching my default
browser
>> between a few of the ones I have installed, but the problem
persists. I have
>> tried re-installing, but it seems as though Pidgin
remembers something about
>> previous installs... is there a way to fully uninstall and
reinstall?
>>
>> --
>> Jake Lauer
>> http://jakelauer.com
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 9:46 AM, Daniel Atallah
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Sat, Dec 1, 2012 at 7:58 PM, Jake Lauer
<[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>>> > Hi guys,
>>> >
>>> > I've been using Pidgin for a long time, but recently a
problem has
>>> > cropped
>>> > up. I think it might be related to the fact that I
switched to Windows
>>> > 8
>>> > from Windows 7 recently. Anyway, now, whenever I click
on a link of any
>>> > kind
>>> > in Pidgin, nothing happens. The link turns red/purple
like it's active,
>>> > but
>>> > the browser doesn't open. I have to copy the link and
paste into a
>>> > browser
>>> > to get it to work. Any ideas?
>>>
>>>
>>> There's unfortunately quite a bit of misinformation in the
responses
>>> you've gotten so far.
>>>
>>> The browser usage has never been configurable on Windows;
Pidgin
>>> simply uses the system browser (and this is known to work
on Windows 8
>>> - there are a few issues with SSL links not opening
correctly, but
>>> that's a different issue than what you're reporting).
>>>
>>> The solution to the type of problem that you're seeing is
almost
>>> always to reset your default browser in Windows (the best
way to do
>>> this is to switch the default browser to another browser
and then
>>> back).
>>>
>>> The only other possibility that I can think of is that
you're running
>>> Pidgin as a different user than your desktop session (one
common way
>>> that this can happen is if you launch Pidgin using the
checkbox on the
>>> last step of the installer (the ability to do this has now
been remove
>>> to avoid this, and other problems).
>>>
>>> -D
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