1839244 - Can't set Firefox as a default mailing application in Debian/Gnome

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Release Engineering :: General, defect, P3)

Description

[Dmitry K]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/102.0

Steps to reproduce:

I have selected "Use Gmail" in Firefox Settings -> General -> Applications -> mailto.
Then I wanted to assign Firefox as a default mailing app in Default Applications of Gnome settings in order to launch Firefox with Gmail automatically from external apps. However, Firefox wasn't listed among available options for Mail.

The reason is probably in the fact that x-scheme-handler/mailto isn't listed in MimeType field of /usr/share/applications/firefox-esr.desktop

As a workaround I had to assign Firefox manually via the configuration file ~/.config/mimeapps.list:
[Default Applications]
x-scheme-handler/mailto=firefox-esr.desktop

Expected results:

The *.desktop file belonging to Firefox should manifest support of x-scheme-handler/mailto in order to be recognized by the desktop environment as a mailing client.

Comment 1

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco]]

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

Comment 2

[Darkspirit]

https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/rev/ddd233d195a5e4b1c75a972a7fd322947fa1d5e3/python/mozbuild/mozbuild/repackaging/deb.py#453

Comment 3

[Gabriel Bustamante [:gabriel]]

Attachment: Bug 1839244 - Add x-scheme-handler/mailto to mime_types in .desktop entry file for browser .deb r=#releng-reviewers

Comment 4

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/5305f3de211d
Add x-scheme-handler/mailto to mime_types in .desktop entry file for browser .deb r=releng-reviewers,ahal

Comment 5

[Cristina Horotan [:chorotan]]

Backed out changeset 5305f3de211d (bug 1839244) for causing mbu failures at test_generate_deb_desktop_entry_file_text

Backout: https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/0378830ce41c609aeee530b9c0bceca95dd00e51

Failure push: https://treeherder.mozilla.org/jobs?repo=autoland&group_state=expanded&resultStatus=testfailed%2Cbusted%2Cexception%2Cretry%2Cusercancel&revision=5305f3de211da8c0ac58025c758d426967ae0ad5

Failure log: https://treeherder.mozilla.org/logviewer?job_id=420984188&repo=autoland&lineNumber=2512

Comment 6

[Gabriel Bustamante [:gabriel]]

I forgot to update the test. Fixed it.

Comment 7

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/d125c3f64eb3
Add x-scheme-handler/mailto to mime_types in .desktop entry file for browser .deb r=releng-reviewers,ahal

Comment 8

[Atila Butkovits]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/d125c3f64eb3