179790 - 'irc is not a registed protocol' message if using an irc:// bookmark and nothing happens if clicking on 'Dalnet' for example in ChatZilla

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Other Applications :: ChatZilla, defect)

Description

[Max]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021016
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021016

When clicking on a bookmarked irc link (eg. irc://irc.mozilla.org/#mozillazine )
, a window pops up saying 'irc is not a registered protocol'. If clicking on
'DalNet' or 'EfNet', for example, in ChatZilla, nothing happens. 

If typing irc://irc.mozilla.org and then pressing enter, it appears on the page
as a link with "[ERROR] SyntaxError: syntax error" below it and if this link is
clicked on, nothing happens.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a bookmark to: irc://irc.mozilla.org OR try connecting to an irc
server in Chatzilla.
2. Click on the bookmark.

Actual Results:  
When clicking on the bookmark, an 'irc is not a registered protocol' message
appears. In Chatzilla, when trying to connect to an irc server, nothing happens.

Expected Results:  
With the bookmark, it should have opened ChatZilla and connected to the irc
server. In ChatZilla directly, it should have connected to the irc server.

This problem was fixed when I uninstalled mozilla and then reinstalled it,
however, it is occuring again - I believe this is since I installed this new
build. It seems that every time I install a new build, the problem starts again.

Comment 1

[Robert Ginda]

Don't install a new version of mozilla over a previous version.  Either delete
the old version first, or intall in a new directory.

Comment 2

[Max]

I'm afraid you cannot close this bug. It is not invalid, nor has it been
resolved. Mozilla should not have to be uninstalled before a new version can be
installed - if this is the case, then we might as well all not bother and use IE.

Comment 3

[Robert Ginda]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 140537 ***

Comment 4

[Max]

Er no, rather that bug is linked to this bug but this bug is much more specific.
And that bug seems to have been closed anyway.

Comment 5

[Max]

"Don't install a new version of mozilla over a previous version.  Either delete
the old version first, or intall in a new directory."

Just did the following:

1. Uninstalled Mozilla
2. Installed Mozilla again
3. Still get the irc is not a registered protocol message....

Comment 6

[Robert Ginda]

If you have a problem with bug 140537 being closed, then complain there.

This is not a chatzilla problem.  Don't reopen this bug.

Comment 7

[Samuel Sieb]

You actually filed 2 separate issues here.  Clicking irc urls in chatzilla seems
to not be working right now.  The 'irc is not a registed protocol' is a
different problem related to installing over an older build and is not a
chatzilla bug.  Try deleting compreg.dat, that usually fixes such problems.

Comment 8

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

Re-read comment 5 -- he claims he uninstalled first, still getting the error

Comment 9

[Max]

I am using Mozilla 1.3b, no longer having this problem so I'm closing this bug