FF doesn't do irc:// correctly

[Carl Karsten]

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FireFox will launch xChat, but xchat dosn't connect to any servers.

[gusaweb (gusaweb)]

The same problem happenned on my dapper.

[Carl Karsten (carlfk)]

it is a xchat-gnome bug: -a is being passed, which isn't doing the same thing as it does in vanilla xchat:

juser@dhcp206:~$ xchat --help
  -a, --no-auto Don't auto connect to servers

juser@dhcp206:~$ xchat-gnome --help
  -a, --no-auto Don't auto-connect to servers

but behaves different: xchat -a doesn't connect to the default servers, xchat-gnome doesn't connect to anything.

Good news: easy fix for dapper is drop the -a, which currently allows it to connect to the –url – (the current behavior of xchat-gnome on dapper: it doesn't connect to anything - if that changes, then the -a will need to be added back)

[Carl Karsten (carlfk)]

purple_cow says: aha, i see the same thing in ubuntu
purple_cow says: so it's a downstream bug
Carlk says: swell
ChipX86 says: purple_cow: fix it
darth_mall says: NOW!
purple_cow fetches source to see what they're breaking

[Martin Mai (mrkanister-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This bug did not have a package associated with it, which is important for ensuring that it gets looked at by the proper developers. You can learn more about finding the right package at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/FindRightPackage . I have classified this bug as a bug in firefox.

You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering if this is still an issue for you. Can you try with the latest Ubuntu release? Thanks in advance.

[Martin Mai (mrkanister-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

 We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!