1864216 - Allow setting the browser as the OS default mailto handler

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Firefox :: Shell Integration, enhancement)

Description

[Max]

It would be great if users could simply set their web-mailer as default within the Browser and their OS default to the browser to allow them clicking on mailto-links and be redirected directly to the correct page to start writing a mail.

The base for that to work is the implementation of registerProtocolHandler, which could be further improved and refined to offer that.

Comment 1

[Max]

Attachment: Bug 1864216 - Allow setting the browser as the OS default mailto handler, r=mhughes

Version with two bars, two defaults (internal/os) can be set individually.

Comment 2

[Max]

Attachment: data-review-request.md

Hi! I am trying to get this change into Fx121 and I hope that you could help me with the data review. That would be of great help. The entire change is also supposed to be part of a Nimbus experiment, but that is not fully implemented yet.

Comment 3

[Travis Long [:travis_]]

Comment on attachment 9363416 [details]
data-review-request.md

Data Review

1. Is there or will there be documentation that describes the schema for the ultimate data set in a public, complete, and accurate way?

Yes, through the metrics.yaml file and the Glean Dictionary.

2. Is there a control mechanism that allows the user to turn the data collection on and off?

Yes, through the data preferences in the application settings.

3. If the request is for permanent data collection, is there someone who will monitor the data over time?

Permanent collection to be monitored by mpohle and [e-mail]

4. Using the category system of data types on the Mozilla wiki, what collection type of data do the requested measurements fall under?

Category 2, Interaction data

5. Is the data collection request for default-on or default-off?

Default-on

6. Does the instrumentation include the addition of any new identifiers (whether anonymous or otherwise; e.g., username, random IDs, etc. See the appendix for more details)?

No

7. Is the data collection covered by the existing Firefox privacy notice?

Yes

8. Does the data collection use a third-party collection tool?

No

Result

data-review+

Comment 4

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/5c480a4ae613
Allow setting the browser as the OS default mailto handler, r=mhughes,bolsson

Comment 5

[Sandor Molnar[:smolnar]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/5c480a4ae613

Comment 6

[Max]

Attachment: Bug 1864216 - added confirmation prompts, changed button label to 'Allow', r=mhughes

Comment 7

[Phabricator Automation]

Comment on attachment 9363994 [details]
Bug 1864216 - added confirmation prompts, changed button label to 'Allow', r=mhughes

Revision D193829 was moved to bug 1865883. Setting attachment 9363994 [details] to obsolete.

Comment 8

[Alexandru Trif, Desktop QA [:atrif]]

This was tested as part of QA-2172. Removing the qe+ flag and closing this as verified.