1456081 - SFTP:// protocol issue in FF 59.0.2 under Linux (Mint)

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core :: DOM: Navigation, defect, P3)

Description

[Walter]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:59.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/59.0
Build ID: 20180327185825

Steps to reproduce:

Ive added the following to about:config as booleans, set to false:

network.protocol-handler.expose.ftp
network.protocol-handler.expose.ftps
network.protocol-handler.expose.sftp
network.protocol-handler.expose.ftpes

As you know, this allows me to choose an application to open these protocols with.




Actual results:

This worked perfectly for all protocols on Firefox 59.0.2 64bit under Windows 10.

However. In Firefox 59.0.2 64bit under Linux Mint. All but the sftp:// one works. When I click a link with the sftp:// protocol, literally nothing happens.


Expected results:

I expected the popup from Firefox asking me which program I like to use to open it.

Comment 1

[Gingerbread Man]

Duplicate of bug 925473?

(In reply to Daniel Veditz [:dveditz] from bug 925473, comment #0)
> We tried it locally on a Gentoo system and it didn't crash, but it also
> didn't do anything -- just a blank tab.

Unclear if the about:config settings were omitted from the description, or actually not set.

Comment 2

[Yong Li]

This used to work, but now is broken.

Comment 3

[Brad]

Is this issue still present? What version of Firefox are you using? What version of Linux Mint are you using?

Comment 4

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Comment 5

[Sean Feng [:sefeng211]]

So we don't support SFTP protocol, and the support of FTP has been removed. Right now nothing happens if users try to open a SFTP protocol url, we do generate a warning in the developer console though.

I think we can just close this bug