update-manager opens wrong browser

[zoredache]

Binary package hint: update-manager

On a system running xubuntu-desktop the update-manager doesn't open the browser set in 'prefered applications'. Instead it opens up firefox 3 apparently via gnome-open.

This is a really annoying behavior in my case because I still prefer firefox2 for extension support. Whenever FF3 gets open my FF2 profile gets completely trashed and I have to restore from my backup

It seems like you should either add exo-open, or drop the gnome-open and rely on only on starting x-www-browser

See ChangelogViewer.py line 170, and ReleaseNotesViewer.py line 121

[Michael Vogt (mvo)]

Thanks for your bugreport.

I changed it now so that it supports exo-open too. I think I would like to also add a check for the running desktop environment, could you please run "env" and tell me if there is a environment in xfce that identifies that it runs?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package update-manager - 1:0.91.5

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update-manager (1:0.91.5) intrepid; urgency=low

  * DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeController.py:
    - support "old-releases.ubuntu.com" as a valid mirror and
      auto transition from that to the regular archive
      (LP: #235527)
    - add extra paraonoia when adding a missing admin group
      (thanks to LaMont Jones) LP: #241723
  * UpdateManager/ChangelogViewer.py:
    - support "exo-open" (xfce) too (LP: #240473)
  * DistUpgrade/mirrors.cfg:
    - remove ftp.caliu.info (LP: #231966)
  * DistUpgrade/DistUpgradeController.py:
    - fix typo and unfuzzy translations (LP: #220505)
  * UpdateManager/UpdateManager.py, data/update-manager.schemas.in:
    - provide a gconf key /apps/update-manager/autoclose_install_window
      to make it possible to prevent automatic closing of the installation
      window (LP: #183209)
  * DistUpgrade/DistUpgrade.cfg.dapper:
    - remove ports.ubuntu.com from powerpc, it is not available on
      ports.ubuntu.com but on archive.ubuntu.com (LP: #241729)

 -- Michael Vogt <email address hidden> Fri, 20 Jun 2008 20:02:50 +0200

[Akria (akria62)]

I wonder whether we might at least have a fallback to x-www-browser in cases where gnome-open and exo-open don't exist on the system?
This is particularly useful for people who built up an installation from the command-line and don't particularly want any of the heavy-weight stuff that GNOME and Firefox typically are.