webbrowser-app overrides default web-browser choice

[Axel G. Rossberg]

In 14.04, the webbrowser-app keeps stubbornly getting into the way of my work. Unity Google calendar integration? "Browser" pops up! Click on a link embedded in a PDF file in Okular? "Browser" pops up. All this, despite my default web browser being set to Firefox. Just double checking: "/etc/alternatives/x-www-browser" links to "/usr/bin/firefox" .

The list of nice features that Browser does not have which Firefox has is simply too long to put it here. So, please give us a choice whether we want to use Browser or not. Microsoft, by the way, got into big legal trouble with the EU because they tried to force their own browser upon their users, and had to pull back. Ubuntu should be bigger than this!

[David Barth (dbarth)]

There is no doubt that we offer choice to users ;)

Webbrowser-app is not the default browser on the desktop and our webapp integration is now based on it. So we may still just have bridges between the 2 that don't take the browser setting into account.

Back to your problem, can you detail the use case where the browser alternative is not taken into account ? I can't reproduce the problem right now, as external webapp links are correctly opened with the default browser as far as i can see.

Can you may be detail the webbrowser-app or webapp package version?

[Axel G. Rossberg (axel-rossberg)]

Thanks for looking at this.

Here are the versions I am using.

webbrowser-app 0.23+14.04.20140428-0ubuntu1
okular 4:4.13.1-0ubuntu0.1
unity-webapps-googlecalendar 2.4.16+14.04.20140409-0ubuntu1