1056056 - [Linux] Firefox can't be set as default browser

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Firefox :: Shell Integration, defect, P3)

Description

[Camelia Badau [:cbadau], Desktop Test Engineering]

Reproducible on latest Nightly 34.0a1 (buildID: 20140820030202)
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:34.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/34.0

Steps to reproduce: 
1. Launch Firefox. 
2. Set Firefox as your default browser: 
         - from the notification bar which is displayed when Firefox opens -> by selecting "Use Nightly as my default browser" option 
         - from "about:preferences" page -> "General" tab -> "Startup" section -> by clicking on the "Make Nightly my Default Browser"

Actual results: Firefox (Nightly) is not set as default browser. 

Expected results: Firefox (Nightly) is correctly set as default browser. 

Note: This is an Ubuntu specific issue.

Comment 1

[Liz Henry (:lizzard) (relman/hg->git project)]

Mano I'm wondering if you might take this bug or know if we can expect it to be fixed for Firefox 34. I don't want it to get lost now that the iterative process has moved on to 35!  Or, maybe you can pass it along to someone. Thanks!

Comment 2

[Asaf Romano (gone)]

Is this a regression?

Comment 3

[john]

(In reply to Camelia Badau, QA [:cbadau] from comment #0)
> Reproducible on latest Nightly 34.0a1 (buildID: 20140820030202)
> Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:34.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/34.0
> 
> Note: This is an Ubuntu specific issue.

>this is old and even if op shows up may not remember but this needs clarification

Was this Nightly from mozilla or ubuntu's repository?

How did you know it did not set itself correctly?

as of 57.0.2 Set Firefox as your default browser works (for mozilla's binary)

Comment 4

[Oana Botisan, Desktop QA]

This also effects DevEdition 59.0b5 and in the Browser Console it throws this error:

[Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80520012 (NS_ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND) 
[nsIShellService.setDefaultBrowser]"  nsresult: "0x80520012 (NS_ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND)"  location: "JS frame :: chrome://browser/content/preferences/in-content/main.js :: setDefaultBrowser :: line 1042"  data: no]

Comment 6

[Catalin Sasca, Desktop Test Engineering [:csasca]]

This also affects Firefox Devedition 65.0b9.

Comment 7

[john]

I just tested the Make Default button in about:preferences#general in release version 65.0 from https://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/ and can't confirm this bug. Firefox sets itself as the default web browser and works as expected when called from a gtk application.

(somewhat related 1427383)

Comment 8

[ovidiu boca[:Ovidiu]]

This issue is reproducible on the latest Firefox Nightly 67.0a1 (2019-02-14). I used the same steps from the description.

Comment 9

[Maria Berlinger [:mberlinger], Services QA]

This issue is reproducible on the latest Firefox 79.0. I used the same steps from the description.

Comment 10

[Catalin Sasca, Desktop Test Engineering [:csasca]]

This issue is still reproducible on beta 89.0b4.

Comment 11

[Cristian Baica [:cbaica], Release Desktop QA]

Issue is still reproducible in Firefox 95.0b5.

Comment 12

[Mike Conley (:mconley) (:⚙️)]

To be clear, cbaica, this is for the binary of Firefox from Canonical, and not from Mozilla?

Comment 13

[Cristian Baica [:cbaica], Release Desktop QA]

This is for the binary from Mozilla, like builds downloaded from https://archive.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/candidates/98.0b4-candidates/build1/linux-x86_64/

Comment 14

[:Gijs (he/him)]

(In reply to Oana Botisan, Desktop Release QA from comment #4)

This also effects DevEdition 59.0b5 and in the Browser Console it throws
this error:

[Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80520012
(NS_ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND)
[nsIShellService.setDefaultBrowser]" nsresult: "0x80520012
(NS_ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND)" location: "JS frame ::
chrome://browser/content/preferences/in-content/main.js :: setDefaultBrowser
:: line 1042" data: no]

Is the error still the same? Either way, I guess the root of this bug is in the shell service.

Comment 15

[Cristian Baica [:cbaica], Release Desktop QA]

Hello Gijs,

Yes, the same error is listed in the browser console:

[Exception... "Component returned failure code: 0x80520012 (NS_ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND) [nsIShellService.setDefaultBrowser]" nsresult: "0x80520012 (NS_ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND)" location: "JS frame :: resource:///modules/ShellService.jsm :: setDefaultBrowser :: line 258" data: no]

Comment 16

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

In the process of migrating remaining bugs to the new severity system, the severity for this bug cannot be automatically determined. Please retriage this bug using the new severity system.

Comment 17

[Timea Zsoldos [:zstimi/tzsoldos], Desktop QA]

This issue can no longer be reproduced using Nightly v124.0a1 or Firefox beta 123.0b9, Firefox 122.0.1 and Firefox 123.0b7 snap build, on Ubuntu 22 I sequentially changed the default browser settings between builds, and it went correctly. I will close this issue as resolved worksforme.