Launching in Firefox and Opera

Opera (At least on MacOS, haven't tried Windows) will not open the itmss protocol. Any idea how to get Opera running with iTunes U and the PERL method?
Also, any info on when Firefox MacOS will be supported?
Thanks!
Chris

Perhaps you "trained" firefox the bad behavior (to
ignore). I think saving the default and chosing
cancel might have this effect.
Yes, you were right -- I'd trained it to ignore the
message. When
"network.protocol-handler.warn-external.itmss" is set
to "true", the exceedingly, unworkably long warning
message pops up and the site doesn't load. When you
set that value to false, it works just fine.
Here's how we handle the "exceedingly, unworkable long warning message". When a user attempts to login we "trap" firefox users and point them to a info page. The info page shows them the error dialog box and which buttons and checkboxes to press. We have a text link that brings up the error dialog box .. which simply is opening up itmss:// in a new window - no long messasge since it's not based on a long url. At the bottom of the page we have a "don't show me this page" checkbox which stores a cookie such that the next time the user attempts to login they won't be re-routed and immediately forwards them to the login page.
Seems to work well, but of course we just started so only time will tell. If you want to take a look see <http://www.hawaii.edu/itunesu/login/firefox.php>.
Kenwrick
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Message was edited by: Actually Human (wanted to make SURE I put in the Safari code that showed up in Safari - correctly).

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No software is perfect. Firefox has bugs. I'm sure Opera and Safari have bugs. One big advantage of using a non-Safari browser on a pre-Tiger system is that you will benefit from the latest security and bug fixes. On pre-Tiger systems, you cannot use the current version of Safari so you cannot benefit from the latest code.
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