Gecko.handlerService.defaultHandlersVersion

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The title given to this article is incorrect due to technical limitations. The correct title is gecko.handlerService.defaultHandlersVersion.

This article describes the preference gecko.handlerService.defaultHandlersVersion. To add, delete, or modify this preference, you will need to edit your configuration — do not edit this article.

1 Background
2 Possible values and their effects
3 First checked in
4 Has an effect in
5 Related bugs
6 Related preferences
7 See also
8 External links

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Background

Firefox 3 allows web pages to register themselves as protocol handlers. This allows, for example, all links starting with mailto: to be sent to a webmail provider, or all links starting with webcal: to be sent to an online calendar site. The information on these registrations is kept in mimeTypes.rdf

A set of preferences exists to “seed” the list of registered content handlers. Information from these preferences is copied into mimeTypes.rdf every time the browser sees a new version of content handlers. This preference keeps track of the version.

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Possible values and their effects

A string corresponding to the current version of default content handlers. If this value differs from the value embedded in mimeTypes.rdf, content handlers from the enumerated preferences gecko.handlerService.schemes.(protocol).*.name and gecko.handlerService.schemes.(protocol).*.uriTemplate are copied into that file. Default value is 0.

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