Preferred web browser is not always launched

[Chris Halse Rogers]

Binary package hint: gnome-control-center

I've set my preferred web browser to Custom: "firefox-3.0 %s" in the preferred applications capplet. However, I get strange behaviour when opening links in gnome-terminal or Evolution - sometimes these links will be opened in firefox-3.0, and sometimes they'll be opened in Epiphany. I can't see any pattern in which browser they'll be opened in: it doesn't seem to matter whether firefox or epiphany are already open and it doesn't alternate between them.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Jan 23 14:21:37 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/gnome-default-applications-properties
Package: gnome-control-center 1:2.21.4-0ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: amd64
ProcCmdline: gnome-default-applications-properties
ProcCwd: /home/raof
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/zsh
SourcePackage: gnome-control-center
Uname: Linux CowboyLaputopu 2.6.24-4-generic #1 SMP Mon Jan 14 18:19:11 UTC 2008 x86_64 GNU/Linux

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report. Do you still get the issue? Do you always open URL, or do you sometime open links from nautilus?

[Chris Halse Rogers (raof)]

Thanks for reminding me. This bug seems to have disappeared a week or so ago, and I haven't quite got around to updating this.

I'll re-open it with the extra information if it reappears.