1811335 - Firefox not opening links from external programs

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1811252

(Toolkit :: Startup and Profile System, defect)

Description

[Michael Lelli]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:109.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/111.0

Steps to reproduce:

1. Have Firefox open
2. Click a URL from a different program on your PC or run from the cmd line: "C:\Program Files\Firefox Nightly\firefox.exe" https://www.mozilla.org/

Actual results:

Nothing

Expected results:

The URL should open in Firefox

Comment 1

[Alice0775 White]

[Tracking Requested - why for this release]:

Comment 2

[Robin Steuber (she/her) [:bytesized]]

Despite the broad name, the Shell Integration component was originally only intended for bugs related to determining if Firefox is the default browser, setting Firefox as the default browser, and setting the desktop background.

Over time, our team has started putting a few related issues in here, like registering Firefox as the default PDF viewer and making sure files have the correct icons when Firefox is set as the default handler for them. But I still don't think that Shell Integration is the right component for this. This component is my best guess.

Comment 3

[Alice0775 White]

Regression window:

https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/pushloghtml?fromchange=ad8bfcfa8233b96ac91b85a6cb502cf45d65cc28&tochange=700e3d729c8dceeb265453c2b899611c393395fc

Comment 4

[Alice0775 White]

This seems duplicate of Bug 1811252