Re: org-capture firefox extension broken [silently]

[Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com>]

i did f12, selected text with mouse, clicked on unicorn icon, and this appeared:

> Prevented navigation to “org-protocol://capture?template=p&url=https%3A%2F%2Fplanet.emacslife.com%2F&title=Planet%20Emacslife&body=This%20month” due to an unknown protocol.


On 6/10/22, Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com> wrote:
> thank you for repllies.  more below.
>
> i will reply to rest of message when can, but wanted to give the
> answers.  [n.b. i still have drafts on other things because it takes
> me long time to do things but they are there.]
>
> On 6/10/22, Max Nikulin <manikulin@gmail.com> wrote:
>> - Have you tried to check that org-protocol still works on your system?
>>        xdg-open 'org-protocol:/org-capture?url=something'
>
> i ran this from emacs shell mode bash cli as user.  it brought firefox
> to fg, opened a new tab, and the tab has a search page in my default
> search engine that says "org-protocol:/org-capture?url=something" in
> the search box.  is that correct?
>
> [idk if relevant, but after the rebooting, deluge also broke; it
> stopped running the correct bash script upon rclick open on a file.
> idk why.  somebody suggested i run xdg-mime with a coupld of commans
> for a video fie but xdg-open still fails to call what i set [it calls
> a video player when run on that type of file] and deluge is still
> broken [called broken video players until i uninstalled them, een
> after i did the xdg-mime thing, and now calls the same video player].
> i find that xdg-open, mime, and file associations are too complex for
> me, do the wrong thing, stop working.]
>
>> - Have you checked what action is set for org-protocol in Firefox
>> settings page about:preferences "Applications" section?
>
> org-protocol is there.  strangely it says "always ask" even though
> clicking on the org-capture unicorn does not ask.  the icon looks like
> a page with a dog-ear.  there is nothing indicating what action is
> set.  double clicking does nothing.  rclick oes nothing.  i undid the
> tst sidebar and turned on js and still see no action listed.
>
>> - Have you tried to create a html page with an org-protocol link and to
>> click on it?
>
> no clue what i would do to do that.
>


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