Apturl does not handle apt links in Firefox

Bug #1723789 reported by Jiří Janoušek
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
apturl (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
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Bug Description

Both apt:whatever and apt://whatever do not work in Firefox (56.0+build6-0ubuntu1). Firefox says:

"""
The address wasn’t understood

Firefox doesn’t know how to open this address, because one of the following protocols (apt) isn’t associated with any program or is not allowed in this context.

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

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 17.10
Package: apturl 0.5.2ubuntu12
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.13.0-16.19-generic 4.13.4
Uname: Linux 4.13.0-16-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.7-0ubuntu3
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Sun Oct 15 21:27:12 2017
InstallationDate: Installed on 2017-10-03 (12 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 17.10 "Artful Aardvark" - Alpha amd64 (20170926)
SourcePackage: apturl
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Jiří Janoušek (fenryxo) wrote :
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Alex m (esqmo-) wrote :

Same problem here!

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in apturl (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Adesh Gairola (adeshgairola) wrote :

Same problem here!

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Will Cooke (willcooke) wrote :

I think this is a Firefox problem rather than an apturl problem:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1382323

We're backporting those fixes to Firefox in Artful now.

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