Support Digest, Vol 93, Issue 5

[Sebastian Collins]

This doesn't really aid triage, but I can see that this is a issue which
has been experienced by other users at least:

http://computers.findincity.net/view/635399295212048058991348/chrome-will-not-open-uri-handler-when-passed-as-argument

On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 5:00 PM, <support-request at pidgin.im> wrote:

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>    1. Windows Pidgin Client and Spotify Desktop Client URL Handling
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>    2. Re: Windows Pidgin Client and Spotify Desktop Client URL
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> Date: Mon, 11 May 2015 15:00:30 +0100
> From: Sebastian Collins <sebastian.collins at gmail.com>
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> Subject: Windows Pidgin Client and Spotify Desktop Client URL Handling
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> Hi,
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> I have Chrome as my default browser which I want to maintain as such. If I
> am sent a Spotify URL in a buddy chat I would like to be able to click on
> the link and for it to then automatically launch my spotify desktop client.
> Is this possible?
>
> Currently if I am sent a spotify url in this manner when I click the link
> it launches chrome to display a blank tab. If I copy and paste the link
> directly into Chrome however it will then launch my Spotify desktop client
> but this manual cut and paste effort defeats the purpose.
>
> Any help here would be great.
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> Date: Mon, 11 May 2015 17:49:07 +0200
> From: Adrien Rivard <adrien.rivard at gmail.com>
> To: Sebastian Collins <sebastian.collins at gmail.com>
> Cc: "support at pidgin.im" <support at pidgin.im>
> Subject: Re: Windows Pidgin Client and Spotify Desktop Client URL
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> Hi,
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> This is probably not a specific problem with Pidgin, but you can find the
> official instructions to do that here :
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> https://support.spotify.com/us/learn-more/faq/#!/article/why-do-spotify-links-always-open-in-the-spotify-web-player
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> On Mon, May 11, 2015 at 4:00 PM, Sebastian Collins <
> sebastian.collins at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Hi,
> >
> > I have Chrome as my default browser which I want to maintain as such. If
> I
> > am sent a Spotify URL in a buddy chat I would like to be able to click on
> > the link and for it to then automatically launch my spotify desktop
> client.
> > Is this possible?
> >
> > Currently if I am sent a spotify url in this manner when I click the link
> > it launches chrome to display a blank tab. If I copy and paste the link
> > directly into Chrome however it will then launch my Spotify desktop
> client
> > but this manual cut and paste effort defeats the purpose.
> >
> > Any help here would be great.
> >
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