914008 - clicking a magnet link causes error

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 564867

(Firefox :: File Handling, enhancement)

Description

[ill]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:23.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/23.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20130803192641

Steps to reproduce:

click magnet link


Actual results:

an error page
The address wasn't understood
      
      
      
      
      
        
        
          Firefox doesn't know how to open this address, because the protocol (magnet) isn't associated with any program.
        

        
        

  You might need to install other software to open this address.


Expected results:

For it to ask what program to open like every other link.

Comment 1

[Kevin Brosnan [Ex-Mozilla]]

Protocols need to be set up at the file system level. http://kb.mozillazine.org/Register_protocol

Comment 2

[ill]

There should still be the option to choose to open it with something else rather than an error message.

Comment 3

[Alice0775 White]

Dupe Bug 888143 ?

Comment 4

[ill]

Why would you mark this invalid when it clearly is not?

Comment 5

[Kevin Brosnan [Ex-Mozilla]]

If no application has registered a protocol with the OS then there is no way for Firefox to handle it.

Comment 6

[ill]

Which is why it is a bug. Chromium gives you a prompt, and so do other browsers. So firefox not being able to handle it is a bug.

Comment 7

[ill]

by the way, even after following the instructions at http://kb.mozillazine.org/Register_protocol about adding network.protocol-handler.expose.foo = false, I still get the same error, so those instructions don't even work.

Comment 8

[(mostly gone) XtC4UaLL [:xtc4uall]]

(In reply to ill from comment #6)
> Which is why it is a bug. Chromium gives you a prompt, and so do other
> browsers. So firefox not being able to handle it is a bug.

Yep, at it's best this is a RFE Dupe.

Comment 9

[Manuela Muntean [Away]]

Perhaps a dupe of bug 564867?