1652377 - Older mac app store links open in iTunes on Mac.

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[u666588]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/78.0

Steps to reproduce:

Click the link on the apple support page for downloading high sierra (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/macos-high-sierra/id1246284741?ls=1&mt=12)

Actual results:

Firefox tries to open this in iTunes (Music app on new macs)

Expected results:

App Store should have opened to the macOS High Sierra page.

Comment 1

[Peter Magyari (Desktop QA)]

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Comment 2

[Peter Magyari (Desktop QA)]

Hi Chris,

I was able to reproduce this on Firefox 78.0.2.

I'm not sure why music is set as default under itmss but a simple work-around is to set this up manually on about:preferences
under Applications itmss (see screenshot). Then it should open the App Store by default. Let me know if this works for you.

Thanks!

Comment 3

[u666588]

(In reply to Peter_M from comment #2)

Hi Chris,

I was able to reproduce this on Firefox 78.0.2.

I'm not sure why music is set as default under itmss but a simple work-around is to set this up manually on about:preferences
under Applications itmss (see screenshot). Then it should open the App Store by default. Let me know if this works for you.

Thanks!

Hey, that almost worked. I get a pop-up saying "can't connect to app store" when safari and chrome open it just fine. Firefox also handles "macappstores" links correctly so there must be a different path to the app store executable that actually handles links. Is there a way to see what Firefox actually goes to when opening a macappstores link?