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Has anyone figured out how to make Firefox 45.4.0 on CentOS 6 use xdgurl to handle xdg:// URLs?

Google is full of suggestions that don’t work. When I select a an xdg:// link I don’t get a dialog asking me what to do like Google says I
will. Instead I get a message that says Firefox doesn’t have a clue how to handle this URL. Do you want to try again?

I tried about:config

I added:

network.protocol-handler.external.xdg user set string /usr/bin/zdgurl

Still no joy.


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4 thoughts on - Xdgurl

  • Just a guess… did you really mean to have “zdgurl” at the end of this string, as you show below?

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  • Mark LaPierre wrote:

    I don’t think those types of prefs are used any more ?

    A lot of the information out there on adding protocol handlers to Firefox on Linux is out of date or wrong …

    A couple of ways that work for me (on CentOS 6, using Gnome) with Firefox 45:

    1. Create the file $HOME/.local/share/applications/xdg containing

    [Desktop Entry]
    Name=xdg Type=Application Exec=/usr/bin/xdgurl %U
    Terminal

  • Hey James,

    Thanks for the detailed response. Just a minor error. The file name must have a .desktop extension like this:

    1. Create the file $HOME/.local/share/applications/xdg.desktop containing:

    [Desktop Entry]
    Name=xdg Type=Application Exec=/usr/bin/xdgurl %U
    Terminal=false MimeType=x-scheme-handler/xdg;
    NoDisplay=true

    Then run:

    desktop-file-install $HOME/.local/share/applications/xdg.desktop \
    –rebuild-mime-info-cache –dir=$HOME/.local/share/applications

    I restarted Firefox then I went to visit:

    https://www.gnome-look.org/p/1157815/

    I clicked on the [Install] button.

    I got the dialog box where I chose the handler /usr/bin/xdgurl

    I did not get the install dialog.

    In a shell:

    [mlapier@peach ~]$ which xdgurl
    /usr/bin/xdgurl

    [mlapier@peach ~]$ xdgurl
    “xdg://install?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdl.opendesktop.org%2Fapi%2Ffiles%2Fdownload%2Fid%2F1476439340%2Frmfixed.bdf&type=fonts&filename=rmfixed.bdf”
    Traceback (most recent call last):
    File “/usr/bin/xdgurl”, line 21, in
    if sys.version_info.major >= 3:
    AttributeError: ‘tuple’ object has no attribute ‘major’
    [mlapier@peach ~]$

    No joy,


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  • Mark LaPierre wrote:

    Sorry, a copy-n-paste error when creating the email

    I don’t know anything about xdg and xdgurl – only a little bit about adding protocol handlers to Firefox :-)

    James Pearson