How to get MT5 to eat mql5buy:// links on Linux

[sblandford]

I've got MT5 running well on Linux/wine and now I'd like to try out some free EAs. When I click on the link Firefox tries to load a page starting with "mql5buy://" and fails miserably because it isn't a recognised protocol.

I assume that on Windows the protocol is associated with the MT5 application so that web browsers pass it on.

Is there some way to do this manually? I am quite new to MT5 and haven't found an obvious "Open Link" somewhere in the menus yet. Is there one?

I guess if there is no manual way to do this then the next thing I can try is to install a Windows browser with Winetricks that will work in the same pseudo-Windows environment as MT5.

[Steven Jellin]

sblandford:

I've got MT5 running well on Linux/wine and now I'd like to try out some free EAs. When I click on the link Firefox tries to load a page starting with "mql5buy://" and fails miserably because it isn't a recognised protocol.

I assume that on Windows the protocol is associated with the MT5 application so that web browsers pass it on.

Is there some way to do this manually? I am quite new to MT5 and haven't found an obvious "Open Link" somewhere in the menus yet. Is there one?

I guess if there is no manual way to do this then the next thing I can try is to install a Windows browser with Winetricks that will work in the same pseudo-Windows environment as MT5.

Try this to see if this helps - http://kb.mozillazine.org/Register_protocol