Can't get second life application links to open on Firefox

[Pocket Joker]

hello! I've been having this problem for a while, I use the Firefox browser and it used to open second life application links into the viewer just vine (maps, groups, etc).

A couple months ago I accidentally blocked the site's permission to open these links and I can't get it to work again.

I've had to manually paste the links onto second life to get them to work. I've cleared cookies and it still doesn't work.

I wanted to know if anyone could help me with this, and I hope it's ok to ask for help here since it's technically a Firefox problem. thank you!

[Rowan Amore]

https://wiki.firestormviewer.org/slurl

I've used this for years.

[Pocket Joker]

4 hours ago, Rowan Amore said:

https://wiki.firestormviewer.org/slurl

I've used this for years.

tried this, doesn't work! i think i disabled something by accident but i've looked everywhere and i can't find what it is. looked through applications and everything

[Lindal Kidd]

Maybe this?

In Firefox, Settings, Privacy and Security, Permissions section...see if "Block pop-up windows" is checked. If so, un-check it.

[Pocket Joker]

On 11/5/2022 at 3:22 PM, Lindal Kidd said:

Maybe this?

In Firefox, Settings, Privacy and Security, Permissions section...see if "Block pop-up windows" is checked. If so, un-check it.

it's also unchecked so unfortunately that's not the problem, thank you for the suggestion though!

[MoiraKathleen]

Did you look all the way down to the bottom of the Firestorm wiki page Rowan linked to above?  It has a section for some additional troubleshooting for Firefox, and perhaps there is something there that will help you identify where the problem is with Firefox:

FireFox

In Firefox, goto Tools → Options → Applications Tab and scroll to Secondlife. Look to see if Firestorm is listed, if not, select “other”, then browse your hard drive to find the Firestorm.exe, click on it, select Open, then click Ok. (Reference: Applications panel—Set how Firefox handles different types of files.)

OR

Download and install the regular SL viewer - but don't run it.

OR

Try this if the above does not work:

http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/gaming-games-multimedia-entertainment/104105-how-firefox-calls-secondlife-slurls.html

 

[Pocket Joker]

On 11/7/2022 at 3:49 AM, MoiraKathleen said:

Did you look all the way down to the bottom of the Firestorm wiki page Rowan linked to above?  It has a section for some additional troubleshooting for Firefox, and perhaps there is something there that will help you identify where the problem is with Firefox:

FireFox

In Firefox, goto Tools → Options → Applications Tab and scroll to Secondlife. Look to see if Firestorm is listed, if not, select “other”, then browse your hard drive to find the Firestorm.exe, click on it, select Open, then click Ok. (Reference: Applications panel—Set how Firefox handles different types of files.)

OR

Download and install the regular SL viewer - but don't run it.

OR

Try this if the above does not work:

http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/gaming-games-multimedia-entertainment/104105-how-firefox-calls-secondlife-slurls.html

 

yes, i've looked at this section, it's out of date for the current version of Firefox (either way, I did check the applications tab and it seems fine, it has Firestorm as the default handle for SLURLs) and the linux forums link doesn't work. it's not a problem of whether Firefox recognizes Firestorm, I disabled something by accident once. I'm just gonna try uninstalling and reinstalling and see if that does anything.

[Modulated]

7 minutes ago, Pocket Joker said:

yes, i've looked at this section, it's out of date for the current version of Firefox (either way, I did check the applications tab and it seems fine, it has Firestorm as the default handle for SLURLs) and the linux forums link doesn't work. it's not a problem of whether Firefox recognizes Firestorm, I disabled something by accident once. I'm just gonna try uninstalling and reinstalling and see if that does anything.

Try this, open about:config in Firefox, accept the message, then right click create new Boolean, name it network.protocol-handler.expose.secondlife and set to true. Restart the browser and it should work then, this will also work for Windows too.

[Pocket Joker]

On 11/8/2022 at 5:50 PM, Modulated said:

Try this, open about:config in Firefox, accept the message, then right click create new Boolean, name it network.protocol-handler.expose.secondlife and set to true. Restart the browser and it should work then, this will also work for Windows too.

I ended up just reinstalling Firefox and that worked but I'll keep this in mind the next time i accidentally deny permission to open a second life location link, thank you!