1218174 - default browser option doesn't change dpkg alternatives on linux

Status: NEW

(Core :: Widget: Gtk, defect, P2)

Description

[dotnetCarpenter]

Attachment: docs

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:41.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/41.0
Build ID: 20151015172656

Steps to reproduce:

1) Install Chrome
2) Open Preferences
3) Under Startup, check that it says; "Firefox is currently your default browser".
4) Create a shell file with "x-www-browser 'http://mozilla.org/'"
5) Make the shell file executable (chmod +x)
6) Execute the shell file


Actual results:

http://mozilla.org/ opens up in Chrome


Expected results:

http://mozilla.org/ should have opened in Firefox

Comment 1

[dotnetCarpenter]

Comment on attachment 8678569 [details]
docs

Example shell file to test the issue with

Comment 2

[ovidiu boca[:Ovidiu]]

Hi, 
I can't reproduce this bug on Ubuntu 14.04 with the latest Nightly 44.0a1 (2015-10-27)

Please feel free if you want to download the latest Nightly version from here: https://nightly.mozilla.org/  and see if the problem can be reproduce.

Comment 3

[ovidiu boca[:Ovidiu]]

Base of lack of information from the reporter this bug will have the Status: Resolved as incomplete.
If you want to add more info that can help to understand this bug please reopen it.

Comment 4

[dotnetCarpenter]

Sorry, I was using Kubuntu. You're probably using gnome-www-browser and is not affected by this bug.

I'm not on linux at the moment. But I would at least like to see that firefox nightly successfully changes the value of `sudo update-alternatives --display x-www-browser` when going from **not** being the default browser to **being** the default browser, when the "Set as default" button is clicked.

Also see this answer from askubuntu for more information: http://askubuntu.com/questions/191696/whats-the-difference-between-x-www-browser-and-gnome-www-browser

Comment 5

[ovidiu boca[:Ovidiu]]

Hi, 

Please give me the right steps to try to reproduce this bug, please if you think is necessary put print screens. 
Thank you.

Comment 6

[ovidiu boca[:Ovidiu]]

Build ID 	20160105164030
User Agent 	Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:43.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/43.0

I can reproduce this on Ubuntu 14.04 x32 with Firefox 43.

Comment 7

[Martin Stránský [:stransky] (ni? me)]

Jan, you was looking at something similar, correct?