External links broken in Google+

[David Barth]

[Impact]

Opening external links in Google+ is not working as expected. The link redirection is stopped in the middle of it in the default browser.

A user is then unable to visit pages which do not belong to the webapp domain.

This is a regression compared to the browser container that was used for webapps in previous releases.

[Test Case]

- open the google+ webapp (on touch or desktop)
- find a post with a link to the external content
- click on the external links
Expected result:
- the target webpage should appear
Actual result:
- the link is unresponsive

[Regression Potential]

None

[Robert Bruce Park (robru)]

This is fixed by 2.4.17+14.04.20140422-0ubuntu1 which is currently in UNAPPROVED.

[Chris Halse Rogers (raof)]

Hello David, or anyone else affected,

Accepted unity-webapps-googleplus into trusty-proposed. The package will build now and be available at http://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity-webapps-googleplus/2.4.17+14.04.20140422-0ubuntu1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, and change the tag from verification-needed to verification-done. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

[David Barth (dbarth)]

I verified the bug fix by opening links to articles or sites that were obviously not Google+ content. The container did open the links with the default browser, as intended.

I will keep the verification-needed tag for now, to let testers outside of our development group verify this fix.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

The verification of the Stable Release Update for unity-webapps-googleplus has completed successfully and the package has now been released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regresssions.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package unity-webapps-googleplus - 2.4.17+14.04.20140422-0ubuntu1

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unity-webapps-googleplus (2.4.17+14.04.20140422-0ubuntu1) trusty; urgency=low

  [ Ubuntu daily release ]
  * New rebuild forced

  [ Alexandre Abreu ]
  * Update the URL patterns to handle the url redirection pattern that
    G+ uses. (LP: #1308784)
 -- Ubuntu daily release <email address hidden> Tue, 22 Apr 2014 17:00:03 +0000