442930 - Support opening url files (.url, .desktop, .webloc) on all OS's

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Firefox :: Shell Integration, enhancement)

Description

[Alexey Kuznetsov]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008061712 Fedora/3.0-1.fc9 Firefox/3.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9) Gecko/2008061712 Fedora/3.0-1.fc9 Firefox/3.0

When you put current url as file on native filesystem firefox create file. On linux system they called *.desktop. On OS X they called *.webloc. On Windows system they called *.url.

When you use fileserver (samba for example) for thre os you can see three type of urls in filesystem, problem is - you can't open each other in different os, by double clicking or by dragging to browser window!

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Robert Strong (they/them - no direct email)]

Are you asking that Firefox support on each OS the other OS's method for storing urls in a file?

Comment 2

[Alexey Kuznetsov]

yes, for reading\parsing files...

Comment 3

[Alexey Kuznetsov]

for example when i open .desktop files from windows hosts, i got UTF-8 url encoded (on russian) and unable to read him... that confused...

Comment 4

[slhorowitz]

I support this enhancement, but please prioritize handling Windows .url files in Mac FF.  Currently, copied .url files open when double-clicked by default in Safari, but are not parsed correctly by FF.  If FF handled them, I could set the opening app to FF.

Comment 5

[Parrenin]

Coming back to this old issue.
I also would like FF to open my .url files on Linux.
Currently, the only way on Linux to deal with these files is to open them in a text editor, and copy/paste the URL in FF.

Comment 7

[Muhammadhussein Ammari]

Please support .webloc files on Windows.