Comment 6 for bug 353372

I have a different symptom but I suspect it is the same problem. Two new installs of 9.1 ubuntu and one new install of Dotsch_UX (8.1 ubuntu) do NOT launch any browser when clicking on a boincmgr project url. echo $BROWSER shows firefox at /usr/bin, preferred-browser also brings up firefox and firefox is listed as the preferred browser under system-preferences. It just does not launch. However, if I install Epiphany and set Epiphany to the default browser then boincmgr correclty launches Ephipany. Bringing up the terminal again the command echo $BROWSER still shows firefox.and sensible-browser still launches firefox.

my 2c says something is broken