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  1. Bug #1201954
  2. Comment #9

Comment 9 for bug 1201954

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In , Mathieu Comandon (strycore) 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.