1375035 - Add support for opening .html files

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1406903

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect, P5)

Description

[Mike Kaply [:mkaply]]

If you send an email with an attached HTML file in gmail and go to open it, Firefox is not listed as an option.

To get it added as an option, you have to add the "content" scheme in the manifest:

                <data android:scheme="content" />

But this still doesn't work. You get offered to open the content a second time and selecting it doesn't work.

Note that the content URL itself is only valid on the initial click of the link.

Checking ADB I see a few errors:

System.err: 	at org.mozilla.gecko.GeckoApplication$2.openUriExternal(GeckoApplication.java:236)
System.err: 	at org.mozilla.gecko.GeckoAppShell.openUriExternal(GeckoAppShell.java:909)
System.err: 	at org.mozilla.gecko.mozglue.GeckoLoader.nativeRun(Native Method)
System.err: 	at org.mozilla.gecko.GeckoThread.run(GeckoThread.java:405)

Comment 2

[Nevin Chen(Not active on Bugzilla)]

Hi Joe
Could you please help decide the importance?
Thanks!

Comment 3

[Mike Kaply [:mkaply]]

FYI, this came up as an issue with Huawei.

We were able to delay it, but I don't know how long.

This also doesn't work in Focus.

Comment 4

[Firefox Bug Husbandry Bot]

Re-triaging per https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1473195

Needinfo :susheel if you think this bug should be re-triaged.

Comment 5

[Vlad Baicu]

Hey Susheel, should we add this to our work queue also ?

Comment 6

[Andrei Lazar]

Taking this from Vlad's queue since this is blocking me on https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1478735

Comment 7

[Andrei Lazar]

Attachment: Bug 1375035 Add support for opening .html files r=sdaswani

Added support for opening HTML files from internal storage when user is choosing fennec in the dialog picker.

Comment 8

[Jan Henning [:JanH]]

We do support HTML files, the problem is content:// URIs, which in itself are totally broken for locally stored HTML files, though. In any case bug 1406903 has some more context on the particular problems of that subject.