I can't open a Spotify URI from Firefox
I can't open a Spotify URI from Firefox But I can open it from command line using the --uri option. As in, this works fine from the terminal:
spotify --uri="spotify:artist:6OqhFYFJDnBBHas02HopPT"
and whatever Firefox is doing just launches Spotify without navigating to the thing indicated by the URI
Is there, perchance, a simple file edit I can do that will fix this for me?
Chosen solution
No, there's no direct analog, but that gave me the right search term to figure out what I was even looking for. Wasn't at all a Firefox problem, sorry about that. And thanks so much for taking the time anyway.
For anyone interested in the future, the solution was to change the file "/var/lib/snapd/desktop/applications/spotify_spotify.desktop" Change the end of line 7, the one starting with "Exec="
from this: /snap/bin/spotify %U
to this: /snap/bin/spotify --uri=%U
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Hi patrickmcgorrill, Firefox should be sending that entire URL to the app. The URL works from other browsers but not from Firefox?
Unfortunately, what I know about checking the shell open command in the Windows Registry probably doesn't have a direct analog on Linux, but that is where the command line would be defined. Or its equivalent.
Chosen Solution
No, there's no direct analog, but that gave me the right search term to figure out what I was even looking for. Wasn't at all a Firefox problem, sorry about that. And thanks so much for taking the time anyway.
For anyone interested in the future, the solution was to change the file "/var/lib/snapd/desktop/applications/spotify_spotify.desktop" Change the end of line 7, the one starting with "Exec="
from this: /snap/bin/spotify %U
to this: /snap/bin/spotify --uri=%U
Modified by patrickmcgorrill
Spotify is the great app.