266541 - cannot open URLs in default browser

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Other Applications :: ChatZilla, defect)

Description

[Glen Mailer]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a3) Gecko/20040817
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8a3) Gecko/20040817

i'm running chatzilla via firefox and i use mozilla for browsing, when i click
links in chatzilla it automatically opens them in firefox. The reason for
running like this was to keep my browsing and chat separate and i cannot do this
if chatzilla windows open in firefox - not my default.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Click a link inside chatzilla

Actual Results:  
link opens in the browser instance that spawned chatzilla

Expected Results:  
link opens in default browser (optionally?)

Comment 1

[James Ross]

Just to quickly document the changes in 0.9.67 that fix this bug...

In the options for URL link opening, there are three existing values:
    goto-url
    goto-url-newwin
    goto-url-newtab

All fairly clear, no?

0.9.67 adds a ne wpossible value, "goto-url-external", which passes off the URL
to the host OSes URL handling, whatever that may be. Note that the context menu
commands still allow you to open a link in the three 'normal' ways, even when
all four preferences are set to the external version.

Comment 2

[James Ross]

FIXED.

This feature will be available in the next ChatZilla release, 0.9.67.