Evince cannot open external links with Firefox
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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AppArmor |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
I could open weblinks from Evince using Firefox under Ubuntu 10.04 since summer 2011 until today (2012-05-09), when I received "permission denied" the first time. https:/
# this should cover all firefox browsers and versions (including shiretoko
# and abrowser)
/usr/
Instead, I found /usr/lib/
/usr/
(just removing hyphen) which solved the problem.
So this is more basic than #605586 in that exo-helper is not involved, while the latter bug report provided the idea that the problem is in ubuntu-browsers.
The reason may have been that I called a major upgrade yesterday (2012-05-09) after many weeks. I took me to linux-generic 2.6.32.41.48 and from Firefox 10.0.2 to Firefox 12.0 ...
The same day (today), exactly the same problem with Evince and Firefox was reported by a different Ubuntu user in German: http://
sorry, "yesterday" was 2012-05-08. Can't one get a preview before submitting? – U. L.