Problem to open "mql5buy" link in Firefox (MT5 under Linux system)

[Florent]

Hello,

I'm running MT5 over Wine emulation plateform for Linux Ubuntu and everything works fine except the redirection from www.mql5.com website. When clicking a link to buy a product, subscribe a signal or downloading free version of an EA then Firefox say there is no application associate with mql5buy protocol.

It looks to be related with the mimeTypes.rdf file in my Firefox profile. I also have a Windows system running on my PC so I've copy some part of the file mimeTypes.rdf (file of the Windows Firefox) to my Linux Firefox but still I'm unable to do anything with MQL5 products.

Could you please tell me how I can solve this issue ?

Regards,

[Daniel Stein]

Florent:

Hello,

I'm running MT5 over Wine emulation plateform for Linux Ubuntu and everything works fine except the redirection from www.mql5.com website. When clicking a link to buy a product, subscribe a signal or downloading free version of an EA then Firefox say there is no application associate with mql5buy protocol.

It looks to be related with the mimeTypes.rdf file in my Firefox profile. I also have a Windows system running on my PC so I've copy some part of the file mimeTypes.rdf (file of the Windows Firefox) to my Linux Firefox but still I'm unable to do anything with MQL5 products.

Could you please tell me how I can solve this issue ?

Regards,

 

As far is know the MQL5 market uses the Internet Explorer engine.

[Florent]

I register a new protocol in my mimeTypes.rdf by editing the original version and adding the lines that are in the Windows version of the file. Now I can see the terminal is launch but that's all. It cannot handle products of market place: (

[Daniel Stein]

Florent:
I register a new protocol in my mimeTypes.rdf by editing the original version and adding the lines that are in the Windows version of the file. Now I can see the terminal is launch but that's all. It cannot handle products of market place: (

Why so complicated if you run a Windows system anyway?

[Cleber Adriani]

Hi guys, follow the steps bellow to register the  URL Handler and be able to open 'mql5buy' link

1) Create the file to handler the URL

Run gedit ~/.local/share/applications/wine-extension-mql5buy.desktop

2) With the following content

Type=Application

Name=MetaEditor

MimeType=x-scheme-handler/mql5buy;

Exec=env WINEPREFIX="/home/cleber/.wine" wine-stable  /home/cleber/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/MetaTrader\ 5/terminal64.exe %u

NoDisplay=true

Icon=B7B7_metaeditor64.0

StartupNotify=false

2.1) Pay attention on your wine's home PATH and Metatrader's path

3) Save and close the file

4) Register the handler

xdg-desktop-menu install ~/.local/share/applications/wine-extension-mql5buy.desktop

that's it ;)

for more information

https://specifications.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/desktop-entry-spec-latest.html#exec-variables

https://askubuntu.com/questions/627469/how-to-handle-google-chrome-external-protocol-when-your-software-is-on-wine

https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/497146/create-a-custom-url-protocol-handler

[IndicatorExperience]

Thank you for the hint @Cleber Adriani

On Debian 11 Bullseye the redirection is only working with chromium. Firefox without Addons (standard-settings) does not work for me. In addition to it i needed a slightly different code for the desktop starter file, see the attached file for it. 

Also i have created a small bash-script to enable it. See this Code. 

Be sure, that you have set your mql5-com account login data in Metatrader 5, section Option -> CommunityTab. Without it, i wasn't able to get indicators into Metatrader 5. After that, the new downloaded indicators appears in navigator-window, directory market. Drag and drop it to your chart. 

#! /bin/bash

## script to enable download of free indicators 
## from mql5.com on unix operation systems that running Metatrader with wine

## It enable URL-Handler redirection for mql5buy://indicatorname
## start this script as normal user

if ! ls -1 $HOME/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/ | grep MetaTrader >/dev/null; then echo "No Metatrader found" && sleep 20 && exit ; fi
MetaTrader_Version=$(ls -1 $HOME/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/ | grep MetaTrader | egrep -o "[[:digit:]]")
starterfordesktop=$(echo "$HOME/.local/share/applications/wine-extension-mql5buy.desktop")

cat <<EOF > $starterfordesktop
[Desktop Entry]
Type=Application
Name=MetaEditor
MimeType=x-scheme-handler/mql5buy;
Exec=env WINEPREFIX="$HOME/.wine" wine start $HOME/.wine/drive_c/Program\ Files/MetaTrader\ $MetaTrader_Version/terminal64.exe %u
NoDisplay=true
Icon=B7B7_metaeditor64.0
StartupNotify=false
EOF

if test -f $starterfordesktop ; then xdg-desktop-menu install $HOME/.local/share/applications/wine-extension-mql5buy.desktop ; fi

exit 0

[Jeremy Michels]

Yes I am facing this problem from previous some days.I made a little research about this on internet but i found no solution.Anyone help me to get out of this shit!!

[Sergey Golubev]

Jeremy Michels #:
Yes I am facing this problem from previous some days.I made a little research about this on internet but i found no solution.Anyone help me to get out of this shit!!

Something about what to do -

• read posts above on the thread - for example post #4;
• register protocol (post #1);
• read some threads where the users solved this issue (to know about HowTo), for example this thread https://www.mql5.com/en/forum/459689 with the decision on post #12 and this thread https://www.mql5.com/en/forum/343057;
• more.

How to make a search on the forum/Articles/CodeBase/Market/Signals/etc -
https://www.mql5.com/en/forum/193510