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Why forefox is not passing arguments to exe when launched using custom url protocol?

sunil.yoms
sunil.yoms
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I tired to register a custom url protocol using the example given in http://kb.mozillazine.org/Register_protocol

My application launched successfully but firefox failed to pass the arguments to the exe where as IE and chrome was successfully passed the arguments. Is this a bug in firefox and also let me know how i can launch an local exe with arguments passed to it.

I tired to register a custom url protocol using the example given in http://kb.mozillazine.org/Register_protocol My application launched successfully but firefox failed to pass the arguments to the exe where as IE and chrome was successfully passed the arguments. Is this a bug in firefox and also let me know how i can launch an local exe with arguments passed to it.

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jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
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I wonder whether you need to use a syntax similar to the file protocol when specifying the path to the file you want to launch... If you open the page in Firefox, copy everything after file: and then use that after your custom protocol, can Notepad open the file?