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Bugzilla – Full Text Bug Listing |
| Summary: | Firefox doesn't offer konversation when clicking irc-links | ||
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| Product: | [openSUSE] openSUSE 11.0 | Reporter: | Martin Schlander <martin.schlander> |
| Component: | Firefox | Assignee: | E-mail List <bnc-team-mozilla> |
| Status: | RESOLVED DUPLICATE | QA Contact: | E-mail List <qa-bugs> |
| Severity: | Normal | ||
| Priority: | P5 - None | ||
| Version: | RC 1 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Other | ||
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| Found By: | --- | Services Priority: | |
| Business Priority: | Blocker: | --- | |
| Marketing QA Status: | --- | IT Deployment: | --- |
| Attachments: | Screenshot of clicking irc-link in FF | ||
Unfortunately there is no way to modify that from Firefox easily. Firefox uses gconf to find a protocol handler for IRC and gconf has xchat as default handler. There is currently no way to change that w/o implementing new features within Firefox. We have quite some bugs about missing KDE integration of Firefox. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 113512 *** |
Created attachment 220403 [details] Screenshot of clicking irc-link in FF Clicking an irc-link in Firefox (in KDE 4.0) it asks whether to use Xchat or "select other app". Clicking "Select other app" opens the Gtk file dialog in which very few people will be able to find the konversation executable. This is a major problem. For example the irc-section of help.opensuse.org will be useless for Firefox+KDE users. There are probably substantially more openSUSE users with Firefox+KDE than Firefox+GNOME. I suggest to make FF offer both Konversation and Xchat for irc links by default. If it's only possible to have one app by default it should be konversation. Attaching screenshot.