Well, first, getting a new URI scheme to be handled by Firefox is equivalent as getting it handled for Gnome, since for some reason, Firefox uses the generic gnome-open command to handled unknown URI schemes. I haven’t been able to find how or why, so I don’t know if that’s Debian specific or if this is true for any Firefox running on Linux et al.
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