How to trigger xchat from firefox?

October 4th, 2007 mysurface Posted in X11, firefox, xchat | Hits: 19770 |

When you hitting irc url such as irc://irc.freenode.net/lbe in firefox, is it possible to open up in xchat?

The answer is yes. How?

You need to add two lines of firefox config.

If you are advance firefox user, you must already know that where to add firefox config, that is a hidden feature of firefox which allows you to customize a lots of things. First, type this into url text bar.

about:config

You will be open to firefox config page which list all the firefox configs. Observed that, there is a filter text bar just below your tabs. First lets check to see whether the irc protocol has been implemented.

Insert the line below into filter text bar to check

network.protocol-handler.app.irc

If nothings returns, you need to set it manually, else you are lucky, you can clicks on the irc links, it may probably open xchat for you.

First of all add a boolean config by right click on the page and select New->Boolean

network.protocol-handler.external.irc

Set it to true.

Next, create a string config,

network.protocol-handler.app.irc

And set the string as

/usr/bin/xchat -e --url=%s

Now, its done. No need to restart firefox.

For more info, kinda refers to Gentoo Linux Wiki. You can implement for mailto:// and others protocol as well.

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Gnana sekar Says:
October 4th, 2007 at 12:29 pm

Since i am not that much experianced user to firefox i cont find this firefox config page and how to proceed with that commands.please meke me very clear about this xchat ….how to
make it very usefull……

abc Says:
October 24th, 2007 at 1:51 am

First, type this into url text bar.

goddamnit Says:
November 14th, 2007 at 5:24 am

It didnt work out for me. Im not a noob, and I did checking for over 20 minutes now and it is pissing me off seriously.

*#@@

mysurface Says:
November 14th, 2007 at 8:25 am

goddamnit: Cool down dude. You probably can try this:
Create a bash script /usr/bin/xchat-firefox

#!/bin/bash
xchat --existing --url=$@

Change the string value of “network.protocol-handler.app.irc” in firefox about:config to

/usr/bin/xchat-firefox

Hope that help.

anom Says:
November 29th, 2007 at 3:11 pm

if anyone still has trouble look here:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=347354&highlight=irc+handler

dryicebomb Says:
January 31st, 2008 at 3:13 am

Thank you, this worked great! If it doesn’t work for some of you try typing whereis xchat, it might be installed in a different location mine was /usr/local/bin/xchat