Midori Web Browser

launching midori launches libreoffice?

Bug #824770 reported by trademark91 on 2011-08-11

This bug affects 3 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	LibreOffice	Won't Fix	Medium	freedesktop-bugs #43198
	Midori Web Browser	Invalid	Undecided	Unassigned

Bug Description

every time i open up midori, libreoffice launches as well. this occurs regardless of whether i launch it from the command line, or from my deskmenus. im not sure why this is happening, but it does, regardless of options i append to the command. im running slackware -current, and using fluxbox as a window manager, but the bug happens in kde, openbox, and awesome as well (im assuming other de/wm's as well, but those are those are all that i've tested so far)

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gue5t gue5t (gue5t) wrote on 2011-11-15:

As far as I can tell, this is caused by the libreoffice netscape plugin misbehaving. Aside from uninstalling that plugin or disabling netscape plugins, I don't know of anything that can be done.

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In freedesktop.org Bugzilla #43198, Jiří Janoušek (fenryxo) wrote on 2011-11-23:

Midori and Google Music Frame use WebKitGtk. LibreOffice Mozilla plugin causes LibreOffice is opened when WebkitGtk initializes plugins.

See https://bugs.launchpad.net/midori/+bug/824770 and https://bugs.launchpad.net/nuvola-player/+bug/890712

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2011-11-24

Changed in df-libreoffice:
importance:	Unknown → Medium
status:	Unknown → New

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Danielle Foré (danrabbit) wrote on 2012-06-26:

OP can you still confirm this issue with the latest Midori?

If so, can you post your Midori and Webkit versions?

Changed in midori:
status:	New → Incomplete

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In freedesktop.org Bugzilla #43198, Michael Meeks (michael-meeks) wrote on 2012-09-15:

An unusual, Ubuntu bug - would be nice to confirm though.

Having said that - I have little sympathy for the idea it's a LibreOffice bug - if the plugin works correctly in Mozilla (which it appears to), it seems reasonably clear to me that WebKitGtk must be doing something different to Mozilla as it re-uses these, to get it to launch on startup - and hence this is a webkit bug.

We'd need to get whomever wrote the webkit / mozilla-plugin bridge to look into it; so - tentatively marking notourbug: if you can get more, detailed information from those guys on how to improve our plugin please do re-open.

Thanks !

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2012-09-16

Changed in df-libreoffice:
status:	New → Won't Fix

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Cris Dywan (kalikiana) wrote on 2013-10-15:

Has anyone tried with another WebKit browser such as Epiphany or xombrero?

Changed in midori:
status:	Incomplete → Confirmed

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Cris Dywan (kalikiana) wrote on 2013-10-15:

So I just tried the plugin, it works, I can for example view http://opendocumentformat.org/webodf/#/demo.odt inside the browser.
The only flaw I can see is this message:

javaldx: Could not find a Java Runtime Environment!
Warning: failed to read path from javaldx

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Danielle Foré (danrabbit) wrote on 2014-03-01:

Been about 6 months with no progress. Can we still confirm the issue?