1880368 - Change the firefox and firefox-private protocols to firefox-bridge and firefox-private-bridge

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox :: Installer, task, P3)

Description

[Michael Hughes]

The Dual Browser project (renamed to Firefox Bridge) calls for a mechanism for a Chromium extension to launch Firefox. This was implemented using custom protocols registered by the Firefox installer and in the idle task. The custom protocols were "firefox:" and "firefox-private:". These protocols, already being registered by FX122, are too broadly named. The concern is that those protocols advertise something that Firefox will support outside of the specific extension they were created for.

We'd like to have more specifically named protocols and so want to change them to "firefox-bridge" and "firefox-private-bridge". Further to that, when the new protocols are registered, the old ones also need to be de-registered, since they are no longer supported.

Comment 1

[Michael Hughes]

Attachment: Bug 1880368 - change firefox and firefox-private protocols to firefox-bridge and firefox-private-bridge protocols r=nshukla

Comment 2

[Michael Hughes]

Attachment: WIP: Bug 1880368 - Change firefox protocol to firefox-bridge protocol r=nshuklaDifferential Revision: https://phabricator.services.mozilla.com/D201879

Comment 3

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/499a03fdb205
change firefox and firefox-private protocols to firefox-bridge and firefox-private-bridge protocols r=nshukla,mossop

Comment 4

[Sebastian Hengst [:aryx] (needinfo me if it's about an intermittent or backout)]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/499a03fdb205