Comment 22 for bug 90533

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In , Gijskruitbosch+bugs (gijskruitbosch+bugs) wrote :

(In reply to comment #21)
> you could have also just set this pref:
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> network.protocol-handler.external.irc = true
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> then mozilla would always use the shell service to load irc:// URLs.

Dragging up this random bug. The pref works, I'm quite sure it does. I'm currently thinking the reporter wants us to have that pref set to true by default, in Mozilla/SeaMonkey. That seems seriously weird to me, considering that if the user doesn't want the IRC client, he wouldn't install it in the first place. In Firefox, Thunderbird or any other app, nothing really happens until the user willingly installs ChatZilla anyway.

I suggest to WONTFIX this bug - but I'm not a peer for networking so I don't really feel I should 'just do it'. CC-ing darin who has the authority to make those decisions :-).