Gwibber does not open links properly

[Allan Caeg]

Binary package hint: gwibber

Whenever I click a link on Gwibber, it just opens a blank Firefox window.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
Package: gwibber 0.8-0ubuntu5
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_PH.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: gwibber
Uname: Linux 2.6.30-020630rc8-generic x86_64

[Allan Caeg (allancaeg)]

Apparently, this doesn't occur when I chose firefox as the default browser.

The problem occured when I set "firefox-3.5" as the browser

[Alexander Sack (asac)]

> The problem occured when I set "firefox-3.5" as the browser

how do you set firefox-3.5 as the browser here?

[Allan Caeg (allancaeg)]

On GNOME's "Preferred Applications", I set custom with the command "firefox-3.5"

I'm sorry for the late reply.

Regards

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

we are wondering if this is still an issue for you. You reported this bug a while ago against gwibber 0.8 and there have been many changes in gwibber since then can you please try to update your gwibber to the latest version and see if this solves the problem for you. Thanks in advance

[pablomme (pablomme)]

I was having this problem with chromium-browser as the default browser. However I checked my "Preferred Applications" settings and it turns out that I had "/path/to/chromium-browser" instead of "/path/to/chromium-browser %s". Changing this (or selecting "Chromium" from the drop-down list in Preferred Applications) fixed the problem. I have the feeling that this was the problem the original reporter was having.

Other applications run fine without "%s" in the default browser string, which suggests they deal with this case by appending the URL as an argument to the command. An example is update-manager -- changelogs are opened in chromium without problems with or without "%s". Perhaps it would help if gwibber did this too.

[Michael Keppler (bananeweizen)]

Gwibber 2.31.1 opens links fine, regardless of whether the browser application is defined with or without the %s argument in the default application settings. Therefore I believe this is fixed meanwhile.

[Omer Akram (om26er)]

I cannot reproduce this either so marking this as fix released. If any one still face this feel free to open this bug again. Thanks.