"Choose an application to open" preferences not saved for ext+container links, even when "Always use this application to open" checkbox is checked
Categories
(WebExtensions :: Untriaged, defect)
Tracking
(Not tracked)
People
(Reporter: joelrputnam, Unassigned)
Details
Attachments
(1 file)
18.26 KB,
image/png
|
Details |
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:88.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/88.0
Steps to reproduce:
I'm using the "Open external links in a container" extension (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/open-url-in-container/?utm_content=addons-manager-reviews-link&utm_medium=firefox-browser&utm_source=firefox-browser). The specific way I'm triggering it is running a batch file that contains a command similar to the following:
C:"Program Files""Mozilla Firefox"\firefox.exe "ext+container:name="MyContainer"&"url=https://mozilla.org'
Starting in FF v88, Firefox opens a dialog box saying "Choose an application to open the ext+container link." and has one choice: Open URL in a container. Via checkbox below, it offers to always use this application to open ext+container links. I select that option, click the checkbox to always use this application, and click "Open Link" (as pictured in attached screenshot).
Actual results:
The link opens as it should. But if you run this command again, you get the exact same results as before: again prompting you to specify how to handle these links and asking if you want it to always do this in the future.
Expected results:
After saying "always open using..." the browser should remember that these kinds of links should be opened using the specified extension without prompting, unless changed manually in Firefox's settings.
This extension is open source, and a parallel issue has been opened on GitHub: https://github.com/honsiorovskyi/open-url-in-container/issues/97
The author of the extension argues that the bug lies with Firefox as reverting to version 87 resolves the issue.
Reporter | ||
Comment 1•4 years ago
|
||
For the record, I misread who argued that the bug is in Mozilla, it was another user, not the extension's author.
Comment 2•4 years ago
|
||
The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'WebExtensions::Untriaged' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please revert this change in case you think the bot is wrong.
Comment 3•4 years ago
|
||
Hello,
The issue appears to be a duplicate of https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1700976. Will mark it as such.
In case of error, please revert the changes. Thank you !
Description
•