Is there a way to make Firefox accept bash commands to handle an application protocol?
Currently, I am opening irc:// links in XChat from Firefox via a shell script as described in this answer. I would like to eliminate the script step and directly move on to opening the link in XChat.
You said you wanted to skip the shell script part. Basically you can execute the content of every shell skript like this:
bash -c "contents of shell script in one line"
In your case it would look like this:
bash -c "xchat --existing --url=\"%s\""
Since xchat is an executable independet of bash you should be able to start xchat directly:
/usr/bin/xchat --existing --url="%s"
Use which xchat to find out where xchat is installed on your system and replace the /usr/bin part if it is installed somewhere else.
Please see this old post, it helped other people before: http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-software-2/how-to-register-irc-protocol-to-firefox-browser-283057/
P.S.: read the entire thread.
