Ubuntu
firefox package

Clicking snap:// urls doesn't work

Bug #1725238 reported by Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄 on 2017-10-20
10
This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
​ Mozilla Firefox
Fix Released
Medium
​ firefox (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
High
Rico Tzschichholz
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Bug Description

I am unable to trigger GNOME Software to install snaps.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Visit http://snapcraft.io/zzt
2. Click green Install button
3. Browser is taken to snap://zzt

Outcome:-

"The address wasn't understood" error page in Firefox

Expected outcome:-

GNOME Software launches directly on the ZZT snap app page.

Here's a video showing it:- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOaGt8W2zrY

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10
Package: firefox 56.0+build6-0ubuntu1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-16.19-generic 4.13.4
Uname: Linux 4.13.0-16-generic x86_64
AddonCompatCheckDisabled: False
ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
AudioDevicesInUse:
 USER PID ACCESS COMMAND
 /dev/snd/controlC0: alan 2350 F.... pulseaudio
 /dev/snd/controlC1: alan 2350 F.... pulseaudio
BuildID: 20171003222101
Channel: Unavailable
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Fri Oct 20 12:06:27 2017
Extensions: extensions.sqlite corrupt or missing
ForcedLayersAccel: False
IfupdownConfig:
 # interfaces(5) file used by ifup(8) and ifdown(8)
 auto lo
 iface lo inet loopback
IncompatibleExtensions: Unavailable (corrupt or non-existant compatibility.ini or extensions.sqlite)
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-08-02 (78 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" - Alpha amd64 (20170712)
Locales: extensions.sqlite corrupt or missing
PrefSources: prefs.js
Profiles: Profile0 (Default) - LastVersion=56.0/20171003222101 (In use)
RunningIncompatibleAddons: False
SourcePackage: firefox
Themes: extensions.sqlite corrupt or missing
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 09/13/2017
dmi.bios.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.bios.version: JBET66WW (1.30 )
dmi.board.asset.tag: Not Available
dmi.board.name: 20BV001BUK
dmi.board.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.board.version: 0B98417 WIN
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: No Asset Information
dmi.chassis.type: 10
dmi.chassis.vendor: LENOVO
dmi.chassis.version: None
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnLENOVO:bvrJBET66WW(1.30):bd09/13/2017:svnLENOVO:pn20BV001BUK:pvrThinkPadT450:rvnLENOVO:rn20BV001BUK:rvr0B98417WIN:cvnLENOVO:ct10:cvrNone:
dmi.product.family: ThinkPad T450
dmi.product.name: 20BV001BUK
dmi.product.version: ThinkPad T450
dmi.sys.vendor: LENOVO

Alan Pope 🍺🐧🐱 🦄 (popey) wrote :
Will Cooke (willcooke) wrote :

Olivier - could you have a look at this one? I've asked Chris C for some pointers and will let you know what I find out.

Changed in firefox (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
importance: Undecided → High
assignee: nobody → Olivier Tilloy (osomon)
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2017-10-20
Changed in firefox:
importance: Unknown → Medium
status: Unknown → Fix Released
Olivier Tilloy (osomon) wrote :

I can observe the issue in a clean artful VM, but not on my desktop running artful where clicking snap:// links opens gnome-software as expected.

Rico Tzschichholz (ricotz) wrote :

The current firefox - 57.0~b12+build2-0ubuntu0.*.*.1 packages include this patch now.
https://launchpad.net/~mozillateam/+archive/ubuntu/firefox-next/+packages

Changed in firefox (Ubuntu):
assignee: Olivier Tilloy (osomon) → Rico Tzschichholz (ricotz)
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package firefox - 57.0+build4-0ubuntu0.17.04.5

---------------
firefox (57.0+build4-0ubuntu0.17.04.5) zesty-security; urgency=medium

  * New upstream stable release (57.0build4)
    - see USN-3477-1

  [ Rico Tzschichholz ]
  * Remote OSProtocolHandlerExists to properly launch custom protocol
    handler (LP: #1725238)
    - debian/patches/moz1382323.patch
  * Refresh patches
    - update debian/patches/revert-upstream-search-engine-changes.patch
    - update debian/patches/ppc-no-static-sizes.patch
  * Install watermark.svg from the onbording extension as symbolic icon
    - debian/build/rules.mk
    - debian/firefox.dirs.in
  * Update make-langpack-xpis target
    - debian/build/rules.mk
  * Bump build-dep on rustc >= 1.19.0 and cargo >= 0.20
  * Set REAL_LOCALE_MERGEDIR rather than LOCALE_MERGEDIR
    - debian/build/rules.mk
  * Build-dep on clang-4.0, llvm-4.0-dev on all archs for stylo
    - update debian/control{,.in}

  [ Chris Coulson ]
  * Update revert-upstream-search-engine-changes.patch to ensure we keep the
    region overrides for non-Google plugins
  * Update disable-geo-specific-search-defaults-for-us.patch to pick up some
    more locales
  * Update searchplugins.conf to ignore recently added experimental and hidden
    Amazon and Google search plugins
  * Add Urdu localized Amazon search plugin
    - add debian/searchplugins/ur/amazon-in.xml
    - update debian/config/searchplugins.conf
  * Don't set distribution.searchplugins.defaultLocale, as this breaks our
    custom searchplugins for non en-US locales
    - update debian/vendor-gre.js
  * Drop region-specific custom Google searchplugins, as these aren't needed
    anymore
    - remove debian/searchplugins/en-GB/google.xml
    - remove debian/searchplugins/en-ZA/google.xml
    - remove debian/searchplugins/ku/google.xml
    - update debian/config/searchplugins.conf
  * Refresh Google search plugin
    - update debian/searchplugins/en-US/google.xml
  * Refresh Baidu search plugin
    - update debian/searchplugins/zh-CN/baidu.xml
  * Refresh Amazon search plugins
    - update debian/searchplugins/de/amazondotcom-de.xml
    - update debian/searchplugins/en-GB/amazon-en-GB.xml
    - update debian/searchplugins/en-US/amazondotcom.xml
    - update debian/searchplugins/fr/amazon-france.xml
    - update debian/searchplugins/it/amazon-it.xml
    - update debian/searchplugins/ja/amazon-jp.xml
    - update debian/searchplugins/zh-CN/amazondotcn.xml
    - remove unused debian/searchplugins/sq/amazon-en-GB.xml

  [ Jamie Strandboge ]
  * Update AppArmor profile

 -- Chris Coulson <email address hidden> Thu, 09 Nov 2017 23:04:37 +0000

Changed in firefox (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package firefox - 57.0+build4-0ubuntu0.14.04.4

---------------
firefox (57.0+build4-0ubuntu0.14.04.4) trusty-security; urgency=medium

  * New upstream stable release (57.0build4)
    - see USN-3477-1

  [ Rico Tzschichholz ]
  * Remote OSProtocolHandlerExists to properly launch custom protocol
    handler (LP: #1725238)
    - debian/patches/moz1382323.patch
  * Refresh patches
    - update debian/patches/revert-upstream-search-engine-changes.patch
    - update debian/patches/ppc-no-static-sizes.patch
  * Install watermark.svg from the onbording extension as symbolic icon
    - debian/build/rules.mk
    - debian/firefox.dirs.in
  * Update make-langpack-xpis target
    - debian/build/rules.mk
  * Bump build-dep on rustc >= 1.19.0 and cargo >= 0.20
  * Set REAL_LOCALE_MERGEDIR rather than LOCALE_MERGEDIR
    - debian/build/rules.mk
  * Build-dep on clang-4.0, llvm-4.0-dev on all archs for stylo
    - update debian/control{,.in}

  [ Chris Coulson ]
  * Update revert-upstream-search-engine-changes.patch to ensure we keep the
    region overrides for non-Google plugins
  * Update disable-geo-specific-search-defaults-for-us.patch to pick up some
    more locales
  * Update searchplugins.conf to ignore recently added experimental and hidden
    Amazon and Google search plugins
  * Add Urdu localized Amazon search plugin
    - add debian/searchplugins/ur/amazon-in.xml
    - update debian/config/searchplugins.conf
  * Don't set distribution.searchplugins.defaultLocale, as this breaks our
    custom searchplugins for non en-US locales
    - update debian/vendor-gre.js
  * Drop region-specific custom Google searchplugins, as these aren't needed
    anymore
    - remove debian/searchplugins/en-GB/google.xml
    - remove debian/searchplugins/en-ZA/google.xml
    - remove debian/searchplugins/ku/google.xml
    - update debian/config/searchplugins.conf
  * Refresh Google search plugin
    - update debian/searchplugins/en-US/google.xml
  * Refresh Baidu search plugin
    - update debian/searchplugins/zh-CN/baidu.xml
  * Refresh Amazon search plugins
    - update debian/searchplugins/de/amazondotcom-de.xml
    - update debian/searchplugins/en-GB/amazon-en-GB.xml
    - update debian/searchplugins/en-US/amazondotcom.xml
    - update debian/searchplugins/fr/amazon-france.xml
    - update debian/searchplugins/it/amazon-it.xml
    - update debian/searchplugins/ja/amazon-jp.xml
    - update debian/searchplugins/zh-CN/amazondotcn.xml
    - remove unused debian/searchplugins/sq/amazon-en-GB.xml

 -- Chris Coulson <email address hidden> Thu, 09 Nov 2017 23:54:37 +0000

Changed in firefox (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package firefox - 57.0+build4-0ubuntu0.17.10.5

---------------
firefox (57.0+build4-0ubuntu0.17.10.5) artful-security; urgency=medium

  * New upstream stable release (57.0build4)
    - see USN-3477-1

  [ Rico Tzschichholz ]
  * Remote OSProtocolHandlerExists to properly launch custom protocol
    handler (LP: #1725238)
    - debian/patches/moz1382323.patch
  * Refresh patches
    - update debian/patches/revert-upstream-search-engine-changes.patch
    - update debian/patches/ppc-no-static-sizes.patch
  * Install watermark.svg from the onbording extension as symbolic icon
    - debian/build/rules.mk
    - debian/firefox.dirs.in
  * Update make-langpack-xpis target
    - debian/build/rules.mk
  * Bump build-dep on rustc >= 1.19.0 and cargo >= 0.20
  * Set REAL_LOCALE_MERGEDIR rather than LOCALE_MERGEDIR
    - debian/build/rules.mk
  * Build-dep on clang-4.0, llvm-4.0-dev on all archs for stylo
    - update debian/control{,.in}

  [ Chris Coulson ]
  * Drop patches that are fixed upstream
    - remove debian/patches/use-ucontext_t-in-breakpad-client.patch
    - remove debian/patches/use-ucontext_t-in-breakpad-client_2.patch
    - update debian/patches/series
  * Update revert-upstream-search-engine-changes.patch to ensure we keep the
    region overrides for non-Google plugins
  * Update disable-geo-specific-search-defaults-for-us.patch to pick up some
    more locales
  * Update searchplugins.conf to ignore recently added experimental and hidden
    Amazon and Google search plugins
  * Add Urdu localized Amazon search plugin
    - add debian/searchplugins/ur/amazon-in.xml
    - update debian/config/searchplugins.conf
  * Don't set distribution.searchplugins.defaultLocale, as this breaks our
    custom searchplugins for non en-US locales
    - update debian/vendor-gre.js
  * Drop region-specific custom Google searchplugins, as these aren't needed
    anymore
    - remove debian/searchplugins/en-GB/google.xml
    - remove debian/searchplugins/en-ZA/google.xml
    - remove debian/searchplugins/ku/google.xml
    - update debian/config/searchplugins.conf
  * Refresh Google search plugin
    - update debian/searchplugins/en-US/google.xml
  * Refresh Baidu search plugin
    - update debian/searchplugins/zh-CN/baidu.xml
  * Refresh Amazon search plugins
    - update debian/searchplugins/de/amazondotcom-de.xml
    - update debian/searchplugins/en-GB/amazon-en-GB.xml
    - update debian/searchplugins/en-US/amazondotcom.xml
    - update debian/searchplugins/fr/amazon-france.xml
    - update debian/searchplugins/it/amazon-it.xml
    - update debian/searchplugins/ja/amazon-jp.xml
    - update debian/searchplugins/zh-CN/amazondotcn.xml
    - remove unused debian/searchplugins/sq/amazon-en-GB.xml

  [ Jamie Strandboge ]
  * Update AppArmor profile

 -- Chris Coulson <email address hidden> Thu, 09 Nov 2017 22:09:49 +0000

Changed in firefox (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package firefox - 57.0+build4-0ubuntu0.16.04.5

---------------
firefox (57.0+build4-0ubuntu0.16.04.5) xenial-security; urgency=medium

  * New upstream stable release (57.0build4)
    - see USN-3477-1

  [ Rico Tzschichholz ]
  * Remote OSProtocolHandlerExists to properly launch custom protocol
    handler (LP: #1725238)
    - debian/patches/moz1382323.patch
  * Refresh patches
    - update debian/patches/revert-upstream-search-engine-changes.patch
    - update debian/patches/ppc-no-static-sizes.patch
  * Install watermark.svg from the onbording extension as symbolic icon
    - debian/build/rules.mk
    - debian/firefox.dirs.in
  * Update make-langpack-xpis target
    - debian/build/rules.mk
  * Bump build-dep on rustc >= 1.19.0 and cargo >= 0.20
  * Set REAL_LOCALE_MERGEDIR rather than LOCALE_MERGEDIR
    - debian/build/rules.mk
  * Build-dep on clang-4.0, llvm-4.0-dev on all archs for stylo
    - update debian/control{,.in}

  [ Chris Coulson ]
  * Update revert-upstream-search-engine-changes.patch to ensure we keep the
    region overrides for non-Google plugins
  * Update disable-geo-specific-search-defaults-for-us.patch to pick up some
    more locales
  * Update searchplugins.conf to ignore recently added experimental and hidden
    Amazon and Google search plugins
  * Add Urdu localized Amazon search plugin
    - add debian/searchplugins/ur/amazon-in.xml
    - update debian/config/searchplugins.conf
  * Don't set distribution.searchplugins.defaultLocale, as this breaks our
    custom searchplugins for non en-US locales
    - update debian/vendor-gre.js
  * Drop region-specific custom Google searchplugins, as these aren't needed
    anymore
    - remove debian/searchplugins/en-GB/google.xml
    - remove debian/searchplugins/en-ZA/google.xml
    - remove debian/searchplugins/ku/google.xml
    - update debian/config/searchplugins.conf
  * Refresh Google search plugin
    - update debian/searchplugins/en-US/google.xml
  * Refresh Baidu search plugin
    - update debian/searchplugins/zh-CN/baidu.xml
  * Refresh Amazon search plugins
    - update debian/searchplugins/de/amazondotcom-de.xml
    - update debian/searchplugins/en-GB/amazon-en-GB.xml
    - update debian/searchplugins/en-US/amazondotcom.xml
    - update debian/searchplugins/fr/amazon-france.xml
    - update debian/searchplugins/it/amazon-it.xml
    - update debian/searchplugins/ja/amazon-jp.xml
    - update debian/searchplugins/zh-CN/amazondotcn.xml
    - remove unused debian/searchplugins/sq/amazon-en-GB.xml

  [ Jamie Strandboge ]
  * Update AppArmor profile

 -- Chris Coulson <email address hidden> Thu, 09 Nov 2017 23:36:33 +0000

Changed in firefox (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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