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firefox-3.0 package

  1. Bug #196202
  2. Comment #1

Comment 1 for bug 196202

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Paul Natsuo Kishimoto (khaeru) wrote :

Still experiencing this after upgrading to 8.04 and firefox 3.0~b5+nobinonly-0ubuntu3. In addition, clicking http:// and https:// URLs in Tomboy, Pidgin and other applications produces no result or "There was an error launching the default action command associated location".

It seems that when I installed the 3.0~b3 or ~b4 package, some configuration keys had been created:

khaeru@khaeru-desktop:~$ gconftool-2 -R /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/ftp
 needs_terminal = false
 command = /usr/lib/firefox-3.0-3.0b4/firefox-3.0 "%s"
 enabled = true
... with similar results for /chrome, /http and /https

Another user who had not installed the 3.0~b packages before upgrading from 7.10 to 8.04 reports that the /ftp and /chrome gconf directories don't exist, and that /http/command and /https/command are both (firefox "%s") (without parentheses). When I manually modified the gconf entries to match his configuration, the bug disappeared (i.e. Places menu FTP entries / gnome-open FTP URLs open in Nautilus; HTTP[S] URLs are clickable in Pidgin/Tomboy/etc.).