275982 - associate *.xul with Mozilla when mozilla gets installed

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(SeaMonkey :: Installer, enhancement)

Description

[bulk88]

I am using Mozilla 1.7.3. I would like it if Mozilla automatically associated 
itself with .xul files in the Windows registry and launched them using -chrome 
wehen mozilla gets installed. I dont think there are any other signifigant 
programs that use the xul file extension. This could also maybe apply to *nix, 
if Mozilla does register itself in *nix world at all.

I spent the last 30 mins reading through the windows SDK and some APIs to 
figure out how to code the command syntax, which I figured was 


"C:\Program Files\mozilla.org\Mozilla\mozilla.exe" -chrome "file://%1"


Also I have no clue why mozilla uses ft00001 as its progid, it should be 
Mozilla.Suite.HTML or Mozilla.Suite.XUL, or something. Look at this for what I 
mean http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-
us/shellcc/platform/shell/programmersguide/shell_basics/shell_basics_extending/f
ileassociations/fa_progids.asp

Comment 1

[bulk88]

Attachment: A reg file to patch the registry to support XUL files

It has the weird ft0000001 progid thing. When I found it, it was like that with
that weird name, but I changed the open command thing to use -chrome.

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 3

[bulk88]

as of firfox 1.0.6 XUL files still arent associated with mozilla/firwfox.

Comment 4

[Georg Maaß]

I think we should won't fix this, because SeaMonkey and Firefox too fails with *.xul files if they are outside their application because in most cases it can not resolve chrome URLs used to load the DTD files.

In most cases developers want to bind it to their favorite XML editor. End users usually never should see any xul files.

Comment 5

[Robert Kaiser]

XUL files are not thought for being opened within the browser area, the SeaMonkey team will not fix this as it stands.