258799 - Need UI to manage external protocol handlers

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Core :: Networking, enhancement)

Description

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

Need a pref to manage external protocols, so that if a user allows or blocks a
particular one they can later change their mind without having to know about or
use about:config

Possibly should also surface the pref setting for the default behavior (don't
load, always load, ask). With the patch for bug 173010 "ask" is the initial setting.

Comment 1

[Robert Parenton]

From Bug 173010 comment #23 (Darin Fisher (IBM) said):

I think that UI for this security feature should be a requirement for Firefox
1.0.  We should probably leverage the "banner"-based UI notification, and
provide a management interface similar to what is currently provided for other
things like XPI whitelisting.  Only, this would apply to URL schemes instead of
hostnames.

Comment 2

[Robert Parenton]

Do we need to get UI additions/changes in before PR?

Comment 3

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

Not going to happen before PR.

Comment 4

[Aaron Kaluszka]

Should this go into the file types list?  That's how Windows handles it.

Comment 5

[Benjamin Smedberg]

Does this have l10n impact? If so, you have about 24 hours to land the strings.

Comment 6

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

Not a "blocker"

Comment 7

[Patrick McManus [:mcmanus]]

if this is an urgent need, feel free to reopen.. probly as a front end bug tho