apt:// should be supported in Epiphany

It seems that the apturl protocol-handlers are not added to the default preferences, so when clicking on an aptURL, epiphany doesn't know how to handle it (and opens an ugly dialog box asking the user to choose an application).

Adding the correct handlers seems to correct the problem. I added the following lines to /usr/share/epiphany-browser/default-prefs.js

pref("network.protocol-handler.app.apt","/usr/bin/apturl");
pref("network.protocol-handler.warn-external.apt",false);
pref("network.protocol-handler.app.apt+http","/usr/bin/apturl");
pref("network.protocol-handler.warn-external.apt+http",false);

(which I copied from /usr/share/firefox/defaults/pref/apturl.js)

Thanks for your bugreport.

I'm happy to add that, but I can not edit the file directly on package install. So it needs to be either added to the epiphany package or there needs to be a way to drop a file with addtional preferences (like there is with firefox).

Thanks,
 Michael

I think this should be fixed in the Epiphany package and sent upstream to Debian if not already there. I can take a look at the Debian merge and see if I can get this in as well.

I have a bzr branch that fixes this (and merges from Debian) at: lp:~mpontillo/epiphany-browser/ubuntu/

the epiphany-browser task is duplicate of bug #357812

This was fixed a long time ago.