Re: [BUG] Org-protocol bookmarklets in Firefox behaving badly after recent upgrade [9.6.15 (release_9.6.15 @ /usr/share/emacs/29.4/lisp/org/)]

[Rehan Deen <rehan.deen@gmail.com>]

> Please, reply to the list.

Apologies. 

> I hope, you used the full expression instead of ellipsis.

Yes, I doubt it would have "worked" otherwise (in the sense that the
link would not have been captured).

> I forgot about 
> "+new", so it should be with another variant of parenthesis:


>      javascript:void(location.href='org-protocol:...)
>
> The idea is to discard a string returned by the assignment operator.
>

> Try to open web developer tools [F12] and switch to console. You might 
> notice some error messages.


Thanks, that works and is consistent with what I thought was happening
-- I was unsure of the syntax here. Yes, the "fix" I had before did
produce errors in the console, which presumably also displaced the
'org-protocol:...' string. Not sure what upgrade to the browser has
caused this string to be rendered now ...


> You may try
> https://github.com/vifon/org-protocol-for-firefox/
> that uses another method to launch external protocol handler.
>
> Personally I am interested in extracting as much page metadata as 
> possible, so bookmarklets and simple extensions is not an option.
>
> In future, I hope, it is better to avoid org-protocol.el hack with an 
> advice and rely on the new `server-eval-args-left' feature.


That extension looks useful -- though I am currently interested in
extracting only a certain amount of information from pages. But I take
your point about the security risk.