1754164 - Firefox snap won't open api.whatsapp.com hyperlinks

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Core :: Widget: Gtk, defect)

Description

[Olivier Tilloy]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:97.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/97.0

Steps to reproduce:

(initially reported on Launchpad: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox/+bug/1956005)

When using the Firefox snap, clicking a hyperlink to api.whatsapp.com shows a dialog that offers to use the "System Handler" to open the link, whereas when using e.g. the deb package on Ubuntu, Firefox doesn't try to delegate opening the link to an external handler.

Example link: https://api.whatsapp.com/send/?phone=[phone]&text=foobar&app_absent=0

Comment 1

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'Core::Widget: Gtk' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please revert this change in case you think the bot is wrong.

Comment 2

[Santiago Fernández Núñez]

Still present in Firefox 120.0