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Windows 8.1 Association for irc:// urls unavailable #1277
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This was referenced May 1, 2016
This issue is present on Windows 10 |
Is the issue still persistent? I have the problem on the beta version of Hexchat |
@ash663 is the issue still open? |
Yes! I'm facing this issue on Windows 10 Creators Update. |
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still facing this issue on win10 :( |
Same issue on Windows 10. |
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Not sure where to put this issue so please direct me in getting this where it belongs in order to see the light of day.
Simply put, Hexchat does not present itself to Windows as an option for association with the irc:// url protocol. Per this answer, the necessary registry keys would be something like:
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and
I noticed that hexchat registers the appropriate keys under HKLM\SOFTWARE\Classes\irc and I just set up the remaining keys using that as the ProgID described above. Doing this has it behaving as desired and being an available option under the protocol association for the IRC protocol in Windows 8.1.
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