294347 - FF disregards network.protocol-handler.app.<protocol> in Windows version

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: Shell Integration, defect)

Description

[qwer1304]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4 (ax)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.8) Gecko/20050511 Firefox/1.0.4 (ax)

FF v1.0.4 (and earlier) disregards network.protocol-handler.app.<protocol> in
Windows version.

Instead, it fetches the application to run from the registry
(HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\<protocol>)

network.protocol-handler.external.<protocol> has the following effect:

1.When true, the application from the registry is invoked
2.When false, nothing happens

network.protocol-handler.warn-external.<protocol> works as expected


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.set network.protocol-handler.external.<protocol> to true
2.set network.protocol-handler.app.<protocol> to an application of your choice
3.try to access <protocol>://xxx.yyy
4.observe that your application is not invoked

Actual Results:  
the application registered in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\<protocol> is invoked

Expected Results:  
the application in network.protocol-handler.app.<protocol> should have been invoked

Comment 1

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
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