Comment 1 for bug 1688395

Moving from bug #1649310

On Thu, May 04, 2017 at 08:02:57PM -0000, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Thu, May 04, 2017 at 03:20:01PM -0000, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote:
> > Notable things not listed:
> > * oxide/webbrowser app, still in use for amazon "app"
>·
> What pulls in the amazon app? I have heard that oxide is definitively not
> on the supported list for 17.10+.

It's /usr/share/applications/ubuntu-amazon-default.desktop, so...

  application://ubuntu-amazon-default.desktop is in Unity's favourites
  by default

and the chain is

 unity-webapps-service -> webapp-container -> webbrowser-app

I heard that we need to keep this, so if it is confirmed that Oxide, the
web browser and the Unity webapps are to be removed, then we will need
to provide this in another way. The desktop team will do that. (An
initial implementation might just be opening a new tab in Firefox.)