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On 2013-12-09T12:19:01+00:00 Mathieu Comandon wrote:

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML,
like Gecko) Chrome/29.0.1547.65 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

Browsing on websites with a custom URL scheme which should open an
external application when clicked (such as apt://, steam:// or magnet://
links).


Actual results:

Clicking on such links opens an empty dialog box and the user has to
browse the file system to look for the executable, no default choice is
proposed (since Firefox 22)


Expected results:

The Application Launch dialog used to show default application that
could handle specific types of url schemes (Transmission for magnet:
links, software center for apt: link, ...).

I ran a git bisect of revisions between Firefox 21 and Firefox 22 and
found out that this was caused by the commit fixing bug #444440
(https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/f118eb2326f7), reverting the
commit did put the expected applications back in the dialog box, but
doing so would reopen bug 444440. As I'm not familiar with the Firefox
codebase, I didn't go as far as trying to write a patch that would solve
both bugs, but ideally that's what would be needed here.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/1201954/comments/9


** Changed in: firefox
       Status: Unknown => New

** Changed in: firefox
   Importance: Unknown => Medium

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