241387 - set default browser fails to set Firefox as default for javascript urls

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

Firefox does not set itself as the default handler for javascript urls. Clicking
a javascript: link in mail, for example, launches IE instead of Firefox.

Comment 1

[David Tenser [:djst]]

Sorry for the bugspam, but a related issue I just noticed is that Firefox
registers .html files, but not .htm files. This makes double-clicking on .htm
files launch IE instead of Firefox. Should a separate report be filed for that
or is it already known?

Comment 2

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Sorry for the bugspam, but a related issue I just noticed is that Firefox
> registers .html files, but not .htm files. This makes double-clicking on .htm
> files launch IE instead of Firefox. Should a separate report be filed for that
> or is it already known?

See bug 219938.

Comment 3

[chris hofmann]

we should try and get this if it is an easy fix....

Comment 4

[Ben Goodger (use ben at mozilla dot org for email)]

would reconsider if a dead simple patch appears in the next three days. 

Comment 5

[Aaron Kaluszka]

I can do this if somebody shows me the difference between the Seamonkey and
Firefox registration code.  I've already written a patch to add other protocols
for Seamonkey (bug 160141), and could use part of that patch logic (i.e. not
including mailto: etc.) here.

Comment 6

[Aaron Kaluszka]

Nevermind, I found it... and in the interest of a "dead simple patch" I'll not
change how the protocols are passed for this patch.

Comment 7

[Ken Menken]

This is another, similar item, so I'll just include it -- when you set Firefox
to be the default browser (at least after installation time, when prompted or by
choosing the option), it doesn't take control of URL: HTTP links. The result is
 that Firefox is the default browser, but paradoxically Thunderbird doesn't use
it to open links.

Comment 8

[:Gijs (out for now; he/him)]

javascript: urls from the OS are hella sketchy so this is wontfix.