401799 - allow opening links in default browser

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Mozilla Labs :: Prism, enhancement)

Description

[Matthew Scholtz]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.8) Gecko/20071008 Firefox/2.0.0.8
Build Identifier: 0.8 (Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9a9pre) Gecko/2007102311 webrunner/0.7)

enable right-click or other affordance to open a link in OS default web browser instead of prism

that will allow us to keep prism focused on the 'app' it's being used for, but still open (and bookmark, etc.) other links in our normal browser

might be nice as well to have a setting to automatically open links that go outside of the original domain in the default browser

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) (use needinfo?)]

Currently, all links outside the current domain are sent to the default browser.

I'll leave this bug open for the "Open in Browser" context menu option feature request

Comment 2

[Matthew Scholtz]

I realized why I thought this doesn't work.
There seems to be a glitch where a trailing slash will cause the link to open in Prism?

Comment 3

[Matthew Gertner]

Can someone confirm that this still occurs in Prism 0.9.1? I assume the problem has been fixed.

Comment 4

[Kariem Hussein]

For me this still occurs in Prism 0.9.1

Scenario:
 - Created "Application" for Google Reader via menu item "Convert Website to Application"
 - Started application
 - Try to open links by clicking on headers
 - Links open in web app

I thought this is one of the basic features [1]: "Open external links in real browser". Importance is set a little too low for this issue (currently on "enhancement", or did I misunderstand something?

[1] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Prism#Prism_.2F_SSB_Objectives

Comment 5

[Matthew Gertner]

That's odd, it works perfectly for me on Mac. I'll try to take a look on Linux if I have time.

Comment 6

[Kariem Hussein]

Sorry, did not update the UA string, which definitely has changed since comment 1; It's FF 3.0.3 running on Vista:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; rv:1.9.0.3) Gecko/2008092417 Firefox/3.0.3"

Comment 7

[Lon Ingram]

I'm also experiencing this bug with 1.0b on Ubuntu Jaunty 64-bit.

Comment 8

[Kariem Hussein]

Tried again today after having received the update to Prism 1.0b1 (UA changed since my last comment: "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.1; rv:1.9.1b4) Gecko/20090423 Firefox/3.5b4 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)").

Everything seems to be working as expected.

Comment 9

[Daniele Dellafiore]

This is not working for me. Ubuntu 10.04 and prism 1.0b4 installed with apt. 
Every links are loaded in a new prism window for that particular webapp. 

Tell me if there is something I can provide to help debugging the problem.

Comment 10

[Alexey Ten (Lynn)]

Same here with Ubuntu 10.10 and prism 1.0b3+svn20100210r62050-0ubuntu1

Comment 11

[Sylvestre Ledru [:Sylvestre]]

Prism isn't maintained anymore. Mass closing of the bugs.