204621 - [linux] integrate with "htmlview" to launch the default applications

Status: NEW

(Firefox :: File Handling, defect)

Description

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from bug #144828

> once we get the front end work done, we'll figure out how to properly 
>launch the default mailer, which will be fun.  

blizzard writes:

The usual way to do this is to just pass the url to be loaded to a command line
handler that knows how to find the right browser and launch it if required.  

There's also the internal route where you can use the xremoteservice to talk to
an already running instance. (mozilla -remote already uses this.)  Then you can
launch something if it's not running.

On recent Red Hat versions we just have a little program called htmlview that
passes urls to the "right" browser.

this is needed so that on nav only builds, we launch the default mailer.

but it will also help thunderbird on linux, to launch the default browser

Comment 1

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shuehan is windows / mac, so maybe this would be better for bz, callion, or jan?

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

See bug 128668

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

And more to the point, I would like us to implement a solution that works on
systems other than RedHat ones (possibly in addition to a RedHat only solution
if there are very good reasons to have such in the core codebase).

Comment 4

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the fix goes here:

mozilla\uriloader\exthandler\unix\nsOSHelperAppService.cpp(1244)

NS_IMETHODIMP nsOSHelperAppService::LoadUrl(nsIURI * aURL)
{
  LOG(("-- nsOSHelperAppService::LoadUrl\n"));
  return NS_ERROR_NOT_IMPLEMENTED;
}

what about the MAILER environment variable, for mailto urls?

Comment 5

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Also see bug 33282 if you plan to hack that code.

Comment 6

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see bug #226071 for what darin recently did in this space.

and see http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/linuxurls.html

Comment 7

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

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