SLURL's and Firefox: Help please.

OK, I had to quit using IE8 because it got buggy on me. Decided to go to Firefox, and love it. Only one problem (and for me it's a big one).

Firefox doesn't know how to open this address, because the protocol (secondlife) isn't associated with any program.

That's what I get when I click teleport from the SLURL. What do I need to do to fix this?

That can be annoying sometimes so you can try this:

1. In a blank tab, type about:config. You will be shown a page with a list of Firefox's configuration variables.

2. In the filter field, type network.protocol-handler. This will show a list of protocols handled by Firefox. You may or may not see the secondlife protocol in the list. If it's there, it would look something like network.protocol-handler.external.secondlife. If it's not there you'll need to add it. First create a Boolean protocol, then a String protocol.

3. To create the configuration setting, right-click on any item in the list and select New > Boolean. In the preference name, type network.protocol-handler.external.secondlife, and set the value to true. This tells Firefox to use an external program to handle the secondlife SLURL.

4. Next, create a new string item by right-clicking anywhere on the list and selecting New > String. In the preference name, type network.protocol-handler.app.secondlife, and in the value field, type the path to the program you want to use for that protocol (e.g. /home/username/SecondLife_i686_1_18_3_5_RELEASECANDIDATE/secondlife). Do not use the parenthesis or the punctuation mark following the closing parenthesis.

5. Restart Firefox and you should be set. If not, restart FF and SL and try it again.

Try using the extension "Microsoft .NET Framework Assistant." If that doesn't work for you I'll look at my plugins and see which one is the most likely candidate. I have never had the SLURL problem with this computer but I do recall my old computer not being able to open SLURLs with FireFox.

Or just get an answer from Josh

If you haven't installed Second Life since switching to Firefox you could try that.

You can find the help for protocol handlers by doing Help in Firefox and searching for protocol handler, or more generally, doing Help, then search for your error message.

This!

https://blogs.secondlife.com/message/26116

Worked like a charm. Thanks to all for suggestions.