On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 8:36 AM, Paul Sladen <ubu...@paul.sladen.org> wrote: > Needs a high-level decision. Is support .url shortcuts (from the MS > Windows world) something we want to do; and if so, are there any > security concerns.
What I do for my users is have it run a little script that extracts the http and gives it to firefox. What security concerns? Firefox already has to deal with arbitrary URLs- I don't think there's anything new here. Paul: If there's been discussion about it somewhere, could you point us to it? Best Regards -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to shared-mime-info in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/185165 Title: Ubuntu does not open MS Windows internet shortcuts with 'url' extension -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs
