Firefox 3 doesn't act as the default browser
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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firefox-3.0 (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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High
|
Alexander Sack |
Bug Description
I have today upgraded from Gutsy to Hardy. After that, I could not open links in Evolution for example and opened bug http://
I got a question in that bug about my default browser and I can't see that FF3 is the default browser (checked in /desktop/
I have FF 3 to check on startup if it's the default browser and previously I had FF 3 alpha installed on Gutsy and had chosen to make it as default browser there which worked fine. If I do a check now nothing happens which should indicate that FF 3 thinks it's the default.
Looking at the relevant links in /etc/alternatives I can there see that FF 2 is the default.
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 2007-12-05 08:15 gnome-www-browser -> /usr/bin/firefox
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 16 2008-01-24 10:24 x-www-browser -> /usr/bin/firefox
If I try to open a web page in deskbar applet nothing happens at all, neither 2.0 or 3.0 b3 opens.
Changed in firefox-3.0: | |
importance: | Medium → High |
Changed in firefox-3.0: | |
assignee: | nobody → asac |
The Bugzilla Evo bug is now closed and that reply also solves this problem however I think it's now confirmed that FF 3.0 b3 is unable to recognize that it's not the default browser. I was lookin at the wrong gconf-key, the one I should have looked at was probably these:
/desktop/ gnome/url- handlers/ http gnome/url- handlers/ https gnome/url- handlers/ ftp
/desktop/
/desktop/
(and maybe more)
I can see in the http key that it has command = /usr/lib/ firefox- 3.0/firefox- 3.0 "%s" and this is what's the previous alpha (a8) did set.
I opened FF 2 and did a check there, it discovered that it was not default and was also able to change these values. Restarting FF 3 b3, it could still not see that it was not the default browser.
The bug is clearly in FF 3 b3..?