Opening links in browser fails

[Mathias Bynke]

After the upgrade to 12.04 from 11.10, it is no longer possible to open links in the system's default browser from Liferea.
Clicking any link or button that is supposed to open a webpage in whatever browser the default is set to, does nothing but print this error message:

** (liferea:10117): WARNING **: Fatal: cannot retrieve browser command!

This includes links within articles and right-clicking a link and choosing «Launch Link In Browser».

As a workaround, one has to right-click it and choose «Copy Item URL To Clipboard».

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: liferea 1.8.3-0.1ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-24.37-generic-pae 3.2.14
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-24-generic-pae i686
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu6
Architecture: i386
CheckboxSubmission: 77efe2228e664e81a4cbd5cc5b405461
CheckboxSystem: 4ed15c40009aa6f7770f606350a390a2
Date: Fri Apr 27 18:26:03 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release i386 (20101007)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=nb_NO:nb:en
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=nb_NO.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: liferea
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-04-27 (0 days ago)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Mathias Bynke (mabynke)]

It now works again. I don't know what happened; it took several reboots. That doesn't mean that it's fixed for everyone, though.

[Joseph Walton (h-launchpad-kafsemo-org)]

Switching the preference for Browser/External Browser Settings/Browser away from 'Default' and then back got this working again for me.

[Vreixo Formoso (metalpain2002)]

Sorry, I said "this bug affects me" but I later realized it was just a problem with a custom apparmor profile I have. It works OK for me in up-to-date 12.04.

[Andreas Glaeser (aglaeser1)]

It is well possible to open links in the default browser, but it requires manual configuration of liferea. This should not be the case.
I did the following:
Under Tools/Settings/Browser choose 'Broser:' 'Firefox', which is the system default browser, 'Open-Link-in:''Browser-default'.
Using Xubuntu 12.04.1 by the way, no system-upgrades were done on this system, the overall-imression is that it is quite well pollishedand likeable, this issue as an exception. Firefox is the default browser for this distribution, so it is unclear to me, why the default-liferea-configuration was messed up.

[Mattia Rizzolo (mapreri)]

are you sure it's not your misconfiguration? I can't reproduce it.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for liferea (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]