Thunderbird is using x-www-browser to open a link in a browser
Bug #367827 reported by
Rory McCann
This bug affects 2 people
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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thunderbird (Ubuntu) |
Expired
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Low
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
In System Preferences Prefered Applications I have set Firefox as my default webbrowser. However after upgrading to jaunty x-www-browser is now launching epiphany. In intrepid it would launch firefox. Since upgrading to jaunty, I haven't changed the prefered applictaions nor done anything with update-
tags: | added: jaunty regression |
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I have the same effect on upgrade to Jaunty. I don't know which package is broken, but it looks like the Preferred Applications menu is not properly updating /etc/alternatives. Though I set firefox to browse web pages Preferred Applications, /etc/alternatives points to epiphany.
Workaround:
sudo update-alternatives --config x-www-browser
[pick firefox]
but this isn't a fix; this is just a workaround; the auto setting gets it wrong.
I can't tell what package this belongs to, either, but I suspect it's whoever owns the System| Preferences| Preferred Applications dialog.