166878 - Fix Info.plist so that Navigator sticks as default browser in 10.2

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Camino Graveyard :: OS Integration, defect)

Description

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

We have issues now where the OS 'forgets' that Navigator has been set as the
default browser. From reports on the mailing list, this would seem to be because
of the format of the CFBundleURLTypes entry in the Info.plist file.

Navigator has:

	<key>CFBundleURLTypes</key>
	<array>
		<dict>
			<key>CFBundleURLIconFile</key>
			<string>fileBookmark.icns</string>
			<key>CFBundleURLName</key>
			<string>Web Location</string>
			<key>CFBundleURLSchemes</key>
			<array>
				<string>http</string>
				<string>https</string>
			</array>
		</dict>
	</array>


Omniweb has:
	<key>CFBundleURLTypes</key>
	<array>
		<dict>
			<key>CFBundleURLName</key>
			<string>http URL</string>
			<key>CFBundleURLSchemes</key>
			<array>
				<string>http</string>
			</array>
		</dict>
		<dict>
			<key>CFBundleURLName</key>
			<string>https URL</string>
			<key>CFBundleURLSchemes</key>
			<array>
				<string>https</string>
			</array>
		</dict>
		<dict>
			<key>CFBundleURLName</key>
			<string>ftp URL</string>
			<key>CFBundleURLSchemes</key>
			<array>
				<string>ftp</string>
			</array>
		</dict>
		<dict>
			<key>CFBundleURLName</key>
			<string>gopher URL</string>
			<key>CFBundleURLSchemes</key>
			<array>
				<string>gopher</string>
			</array>
		</dict>
		<dict>
			<key>CFBundleURLName</key>
			<string>file URL</string>
			<key>CFBundleURLSchemes</key>
			<array>
				<string>file</string>
			</array>
		</dict>
	</array>

IE has:

	<key>CFBundleURLTypes</key>
	<array>
		<dict>
			<key>CFBundleURLName</key>
			<string>http URL</string>
			<key>CFBundleURLSchemes</key>
			<array>
				<string>http</string>
			</array>
			<key>LSIsAppleDefaultForScheme</key>
			<true/>
		</dict>
		<dict>
			<key>CFBundleURLName</key>
			<string>https URL</string>
			<key>CFBundleURLSchemes</key>
			<array>
				<string>https</string>
			</array>
			<key>LSIsAppleDefaultForScheme</key>
			<true/>
		</dict>
		<dict>
			<key>CFBundleURLName</key>
			<string>file URL</string>
			<key>CFBundleURLSchemes</key>
			<array>
				<string>file</string>
			</array>
			<key>LSIsAppleDefaultForScheme</key>
			<true/>
		</dict>
	</array>

Comment 1

[Greg K.]

*** Bug 164615 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 2

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

Checked in project changes to get new Info.plist URL type entries.

Comment 3

[Michael Lam]

Don't seems to work.

Firstly,
There are a few days that I havn't use Chimera and use IE instead. I download the 6-9-
2002 nightly and Navigator sticks as the default browser.

But after I've deleted Navigator and copy it from the disk image to the Application folder 
again, the preference won't stick again.

I am using Mac OS X 10.2 with nightly 6-9-2002

Comment 4

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

Right, it doesn't work. The Infoplist.strings needs fixing, but even that
doesn't seem to do the trick.

Comment 5

[Chris Petersen]

Simon,

Not sure if this helps or not. The Mac (10.2 installed) which I can reproduce
this problem has multiple partitions on the drive. I can't reproduce on two
other Macs (which both have 10.2) but use a single partition.

Comment 6

[John T. Folden]

Additional clue of possible interest. This issue does not occur with nightly
builds issued prior to August 28th, 2002. The August 27th build 'sticks' just
fine under OS X 10.2 for me, as do earlier builds.

Comment 7

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

I have not been able to find the cause of this bug, which is likely a system
bug. The only solution I have found is to:

remove the files:

  /Library/Caches/com.apple.LaunchServices.LocalCache.csstore
  /private/var/root/Library/Caches/com.apple.LaunchServices.UserCache.csstore
  ~/Library/Caches/com.apple.LaunchServices.UserCache.csstore
(note that I'm not sure whether all of these deletions are required).

then reboot (yes, not just log out).

Comment 8

[Chris Petersen]

Yep, that solution works for me too. Thanks.

Comment 9

[Greg K.]

Does this problem also affect Fizzilla? (See bug 167329.)

Comment 10

[Steve Dagley]

Add another vote for this being a bug in Jaguar.  This same problem was observed
in Mozilla when I was testing modifications to its Info.plist file on a
pre-release version of Jaguar.  The problem seemingly disapeared when updating
to a newer build of Jaguar but it would now seem it's just random.

Comment 11

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

I'm pretty sure that this is an OS bug, and have documented a workaround in the
release notes. Hence wontfix.

Comment 12

[Michael Lam]

This is still not fixed in Mac OS X 10.2.1.

Seems like someone has to submit a bug report to Apple.

Comment 13

[Greg K.]

*** Bug 174493 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 14

[Greg K.]

*** Bug 175312 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 15

[Greg K.]

*** Bug 178195 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 16

[kaldari]

Has anyone mentioned this to the Apple liason?

Comment 17

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

Yes. It was fixed in 10.2.2

Comment 18

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

this has crept up in 10.2.5 (my machine) and 10.2.4 (samir's Ti) when trying to
set recent trunk builds (either netscape or camino, mind you). the workaround in
comment 7 still appears to work (whew).

seth wasn't able to repro the problem in 10.2.3, but then again he doesn't d/l
builds on OS X that much --simon mentioned that frequent build installs and/or
OS software updates might be the culprit.

so it might be worth relnoting this for future mozilla, netscape and camino
releases --esp useful for users who do frequent updates/installs.