KDE Firefox Support / "kmozillahelper" is busted....AGAIN...Brings up GTK file dialogs.

[Ryan Farmer]

KDE Firefox Support (aka kmozillahelper) is an ld preload hack for Firefox that forces it to use KDE file dialogs. It has a predisposition to breaking every time there's a new Kubuntu development branch. GTK+ file dialogs make me cry. (Oh no, not really. They're just an eyesore.).

This time, on Kubuntu 12.04 with Firefox 10 beta, having this installed does absolutely nothing and brings up GTK+ file dialogs instead. Bringing up the KDE Task Manager shows kmozillahelper is loaded and running, so it's taking up resources and not doing anything if the user installed it.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: kmozillahelper (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-10.18-generic 3.2.1
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-10-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 1.91-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Jan 25 03:12:43 2012
InstallationMedia: Kubuntu 12.04 LTS "Precise Pangolin" - Alpha amd64 (20120124)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: kmozillahelper
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

This is due to Firefox not having the KDE patches enabled on precise. I believe this is won't fix though, but will wait for Chris to verify.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.