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Bug 309127 - Should open a browser for http:// links
Should open a browser for http:// links
Status: RESOLVED OBSOLETE
Product: nautilus
Classification: Core
Component: general
3.1.x
Other All
: Low normal
: ---
Assigned To: Nautilus Maintainers
Nautilus Maintainers
: 331187 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks: 144704
 
 
Reported: 2005-06-27 13:23 UTC by dinoop.thomas
Modified: 2021-06-18 15:16 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: Unversioned Enhancement


Description dinoop.thomas 2005-06-27 13:23:28 UTC 
1. Open a nautilus browser window
2. Enter any http:// URI in the location bar.

Nautilus displays a warning saying : "Couldn't display "http://, The location is
not a folder"
Comment 1 dinoop.thomas 2005-06-27 13:24:43 UTC 
Is nautilus supposed to open http:// URIs in a web browser? Kindly comment on this.
Comment 2 Christian Neumair 2005-07-08 17:20:27 UTC 
The patch under [1] tries to fix this issue by using GnomeVFS if Nautilus can't
display an URI.

[1] http://mail.gnome.org/archives/nautilus-list/2005-June/msg00196.html
Comment 3 Christian Neumair 2005-12-20 19:07:47 UTC 
Confirming, milestoning to 2.14.
Comment 4 Christian Neumair 2006-02-15 09:41:55 UTC 
*** Bug 331187 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 5 Calum Benson 2006-04-26 16:42:28 UTC 
Removing keynav keyword, not really a keynav issue in the usual sense of the word.
Comment 6 Cosimo Cecchi 2011-03-31 18:56:12 UTC 
We should either open the default web browser, or just use a different error (like "Location not supported").
Comment 7 André Klapper 2021-06-18 15:16:41 UTC 
GNOME is going to shut down bugzilla.gnome.org in favor of gitlab.gnome.org.
As part of that, we are mass-closing older open tickets in bugzilla.gnome.org
which have not seen updates for a longer time (resources are unfortunately
quite limited so not every ticket can get handled).

If you can still reproduce the situation described in this ticket in a recent
and supported software version of Files (nautilus), then please follow
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