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Launches Firefox instead of default browser

Bug #229750 reported by Trouilliez vincent on 2008-05-12

This bug report is a duplicate of: Bug #110224: synaptic opens web browser with root privileges and settings. Edit Remove

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	synaptic (Ubuntu)	Confirmed	Low	Unassigned

Bug Description

Binary package hint: synaptic

When I go to Help->Report a problem, it starts Firefox, regardless of the default browser setting (Epiphany in my case, not Firefox).

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Mon May 12 23:42:32 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/sbin/synaptic
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: synaptic 0.61ubuntu9
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: synaptic
Uname: Linux 2.6.24-16-generic i686

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Trouilliez vincent (vincent-trouilliez-modulonet) wrote on 2008-05-12:

Dependencies.txt Edit (2.3 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcMaps.txt Edit (15.2 KiB, text/plain; charset="utf-8")
ProcStatus.txt Edit (613 bytes, text/plain; charset="utf-8")

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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote on 2008-05-12:

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. I was unable to recreate this bug. I set my default browser to Epiphany in Preferred Applications and then went to Help -> Report a Problem and Epiphany was used. How did you go about setting your default browser? Thanks in advance.

Changed in synaptic:
status:	New → Incomplete

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Trouilliez vincent (vincent-trouilliez-modulonet) wrote on 2008-05-13:

> How did you go about setting your default browser?

Like you, using the Gnonme Preferences Capplet...

Did you click on "report a problem" from Synaptic, or some othjer application ?
I ask, because when try on Rhythmbox for example, it does launch Epiphany as expected. It's onlt Synaptic (so far as I can see), that starts firefox, hence I filed this bug against Synaptic and not another application.

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Brian Murray (brian-murray) wrote on 2008-05-13:

Perhaps it has to do with how synaptic is started. Are you starting it from System -> Administration or from the command line? Thanks again.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote on 2008-05-13:

that's because synaptic is ran using sudo and so doesn't use the current user settings, reassigning to synaptic, that will be fixed when synaptic will run as user and use policykit or similar to do priviledged actions

Changed in launchpad-integration:
importance:	Undecided → Low
status:	Incomplete → New

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Matthias Meulien (orontee) wrote on 2008-06-30:

defaults.list Edit (148 bytes, text/plain)

Could you try the following:

1. Create a file named defaults.list (see attachment)

2. Save under ~/.local/share/applications (create directories if they aren't already there).

3. Restart your Gnome session.

After this, it should be epiphany should be used in place of Firefox... It's not clear Step 3 is needed...

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Trouilliez vincent (vincent-trouilliez-modulonet) wrote on 2008-06-30:

Hi,

I think it's not worth doing anything about it in Hardy, since as Sebastien said, the cause of the problem is known and is a design issue which will (probably) be tackeld in Intredid. So I am happy to leave it at that as far as Hardy is concerned...

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jaduncan (jaduncan) wrote on 2009-03-30:

Error is indeed an issue, but is by design. Now a usability bug.

Changed in synaptic:
status:	New → Confirmed

Brian Murray (brian-murray) on 2009-04-14

Changed in synaptic (Ubuntu):
status:	Confirmed → Triaged

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Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel) wrote on 2010-02-22:

Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. This particular bug has already been reported and is a duplicate of bug 110224, so it is being marked as such. Please look at the other bug report to see if there is any missing information that you can provide, or to see if there is a workaround for the bug. Additionally, any further discussion regarding the bug should occur in the other report. Please continue to report any other bugs you may find.