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pearl298

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Amule 2.2.6/Firefox 4.0.1/Ubuntu 11.04 problem
« on: May 28, 2011, 10:44:44 AM »
I don't know if this is a config. problem or not, but I have just upgraded my installation on Ubuntu 10.10/Firefox 3.5.x to the latest of each. PURE "vanilla" installs of everything (so far!)

My problem is that the ED2K links, which have been working for years are now broken.

The Wiki at http://wiki.amule.org/index.php/Ed2k_links_handling#Configuration_for_a_single_user does not seem to work since "network.protocol-handler.expose.ed2k" is reset to "true" when I exit FF. I am unable to "toggle" the value after reboot.

The files/directories specified for the multi user version (/usr/share/firefox/... and /usr/share/local/firefox/...) do not seem to exist, so that avenue doesn't help.

Clicking on a link simply does nothing, copy/paste of the link works fine (i.e. not a malformed link).

Does anyone have any suggestions? Is this yet another FF4 problem or ???  :'(
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Re: Amule 2.2.6/Firefox 4.0.1/Ubuntu 11.04 problem
« Reply #1 on: May 29, 2011, 08:03:16 PM »
Hi there, I configured it here on my Ubuntu 11.04 x86_64 right now.

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Configuration for a single user

    Insert about:config in the address bar

    Right click on the list, select New, then Boolean; insert network.protocol-handler.external.ed2k as Preference Name and true as Value

    Now another right click, select New and String; insert network.protocol-handler.app.ed2k as Preference Name and /path/to/ed2k (path to where the file is installed on your system) as Value.

For Ubuntu Lucid users, you should set the Value to just "ed2k" instead of "/usr/bin/ed2k".

For Firefox 3 and higher only, you should also:

    Right click on the list, select New, then Boolean; insert network.protocol-handler.expose.ed2k as Preference Name and false as Value

Maybe you forgot the last part?

Here it's working flawless.
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Re: Amule 2.2.6/Firefox 4.0.1/Ubuntu 11.04 problem
« Reply #2 on: May 29, 2011, 10:07:39 PM »
Yup tried it several times, I think that is the root problem in fact!

As I noted in my post: ""network.protocol-handler.expose.ed2k" is reset to "true" when I exit FF. I am unable to "toggle" the value after reboot."

I have to believe thta somehting is set improperly in a cofig file if I could only find out WHAT!  :(
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Re: Amule 2.2.6/Firefox 4.0.1/Ubuntu 11.04 problem
« Reply #3 on: May 30, 2011, 09:53:03 PM »
Quote from: pearl298 on May 29, 2011, 10:07:39 PM
I have to believe thta somehting is set improperly in a cofig file if I could only find out WHAT!  :(
This is known as "Linux in a nutshell".  ;)
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Re: Amule 2.2.6/Firefox 4.0.1/Ubuntu 11.04 problem
« Reply #4 on: May 30, 2011, 10:48:54 PM »
Quote from: Stu Redman on May 30, 2011, 09:53:03 PM
Quote from: pearl298 on May 29, 2011, 10:07:39 PM
I have to believe thta somehting is set improperly in a cofig file if I could only find out WHAT!  :(
This is known as "Linux in a nutshell".  ;)

Sadly I think you are right!

Well a couple of new items to add to the mix:

      Seamonkey  works just fine!
      I also tried Firefox 3.6.2 on another machine and it does the same thing with that config flag - NOW I suspect a Firefox add on of some sort.

I will probably just use Seamonkey dedicated to that use rather than fussing with it any more. :-(
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