Nautilus should launch the browser from .URL files
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nautilus (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: nautilus
.URL files are used in Windows to launch the browser to go to a URL. Internet Explorer saves Favorites as .url files, for instance, and Firefox creates .URL files when dragging a web page to the Desktop. (In KDE and Gnome, this functionality is supplied by .desktop files.)
Currently, double-clicking a .url file in Nautilus opens it in a text editor. It should launch the user's default browser instead.
The file format is simple, starting with
[InternetSh
and then containing a string like:
URL=http://
For launching the URL in a browser, no more functionality is required than identifying the file format (.url glob and magic word as above) and then finding this "URL=" key.
There are other keys that can be included in the file, like an icon with an absolute Windows path. If we wanted to implement advanced things like finding the icon, Bug 136714 is relevant.
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Thank you for taking time to report this bug. unfortunately I cannot reproduce it. I use epiphany and I can not remember telling epiphany to open such files.