Gecko.handlerService.schemes.(protocol).*.name

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The title given to this article is incorrect due to technical limitations. The correct title is gecko.handlerService.schemes.(protocol).*.name.

This article describes the preference gecko.handlerService.schemes.(protocol).*.name. 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 is an enumerated preference: all preferences whose names start with gecko.handlerService.schemes. are read to generate the list of handlers. (For example: gecko.handlerService.schemes.webcal.0.name and gecko.handlerService.schemes.webcal.0.uriTemplate describe one handler for the webcal: protocol.)

This preference determines the name for a content handler for a given protocol.

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Possible values and their effects

A string containing a descriptive name for a content handler for the protocol specified in the preference name and the URI template specified in the corresponding gecko.handlerService.schemes.(protocol).*.uriTemplate preference.

By default, the following preference and value exist: