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[Christopher Yeleighton <giecrilj@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Actually also mailto :
<URL: mailto:user@xxxxxxxxxxx >
This behaviour is consistent with how the Web browser refuses to handle unsupported media types, e.g. image/tiff: nothing happens when you press and a new tab comes blank.  Is this by design?  It does not look like a good one.

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Title:
  Opening a tel:// link doesn't open dialer-app

Status in Web Browser App:
  Confirmed
Status in “webbrowser-app” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  When clicking a link to tel://blah, the browser says it doesn't know
  how to handle the link, rather than opening the dialer-app.

  Steps to reproduce:
  1) Open browser
  2) Search for a business on Google
  3) Click the "Call" result
  4) Note the dialer-app is not opened

  Expected results:
  Dialer is opened to the provided number

  Actual results:
  Browser tries to open link, fails

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.10
  Package: webbrowser-app (not installed)
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.11.0-12.19-generic 3.11.3
  Uname: Linux 3.11.0-12-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  ApportVersion: 2.12.5-0ubuntu2.1
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Fri Nov  8 12:39:45 2013
  InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-04-26 (196 days ago)
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.04 "Raring Ringtail" - Release amd64 (20130424)
  MarkForUpload: True
  SourcePackage: webbrowser-app
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to saucy on 2013-08-13 (87 days ago)

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