1842789 - Firefox is not associated with x-scheme-handler/mailto

Status: NEW

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, enhancement)

Description

[nils]

Steps to reproduce:

The firefox.desktop entry (https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/source/browser/components/shell/search-provider-files/firefox.desktop) is associated with a lot of useful MIME types, among others HTTP and HTTPS URLs:

MimeType=[...];x-scheme-handler/http;x-scheme-handler/https;

One association that's notably missing however, are mailto-links:

MimeType=[...];x-scheme-handler/mailto;

Internally, Firefox already handles mailto: links and lets you associate them with your preferred webmailer. Right now however, mailto link clicks outside of Firefox cannot be routed into Firefox, and then handled by your preferred webmailer.

I would therefore suggest to add the handler to that line.

Actual results:

It is not possible to open mailto: links in your Linux operating system inside Firefox. The MimeType attribute in firefox.desktop is missing the handler:

MimeType=text/html;text/xml;application/xhtml+xml;application/vnd.mozilla.xul+xml;text/mml;x-scheme-handler/http;x-scheme-handler/https;

Expected results:

It should be possible to open mailto: links in your Linux operating system inside Firefox. The MimeType attribute in firefox.desktop should be amended by the correct handler:

MimeType=text/html;text/xml;application/xhtml+xml;application/vnd.mozilla.xul+xml;text/mml;x-scheme-handler/http;x-scheme-handler/https;x-scheme-handler/mailto;

Comment 1

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

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

Comment 2

[Ina Popescu, Desktop QA]

Thank you for submitting this enhancement. Setting this as NEW and waiting for the developer's opinion about it.