I'm puzzled by all the people tying this to chromium for zoom. I use
firefox and it doesn't work any better there, especially with the zoom-
client from snap where it doesn't work at all.

Using the snap zoom-client, typing xdg-open
'zoommtg://zoom.us/join?action=join&... (using URL I got by making a
test meeting on zoom.us/test) from a shell opens a google search in
firefox. Clicking on the same link in firefox does nothing. sudo snap
refresh snapd --beta doesn't help. If I install a zoom deb downloaded
from zoom.us, xdg-open works on some zoom links, though not all of them.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1776873

Title:
  Whitelisted allowedURLschemes breaks some desktop apps

Status in snapd:
  Triaged
Status in chromium-browser package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  
https://github.com/snapcore/snapd/blob/7952972d4897e085030b288e44dc98b824f6723a/userd/launcher.go#L55

  snapd has a hard-coded list of allowed URL schemes. Currently that is
  limited to "http", "https", "mailto", "snap".

  We have a number of applications in the store which are trying to use
  protocol handlers outside this scope and break when that's not
  possible.

  e.g.

  Telegram Desktop: tg:/
  Github Desktop: git:/
  IRCCloud Desktop: irc:/

  These are the ones I know of, others may also be affected. Can we
  please at least expand the list to those that we know of, and perhaps
  research other popular protocol handlers?

  Ideally we wouldn't have a whitelist, because this delays our ability
  to land new applications with as-yet unknown url schemes.

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