260103 - Firefox does not read the default browser setting correctly on GNOME

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: Shell Integration, defect)

Description

[Carlos Rodrigues]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040914 Firefox/0.10
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040914 Firefox/0.10

Firefox 1.0PR1 seems to be too picky about the default browser setting on GNOME.
After letting Firefox set itself as the default browser, it never complains
again unless I go to the "Preferred Applications" control panel. I don't even
need to touch anything there, just by opening it the next time Firefox starts it
complains about not being the default browser.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open Firefox on GNOME (with another browser as the default)
2. Let Firefox set itself as the default browser on the dialog that pops up
3. Close Firefox
4. Go to "Start Here -> Preferences -> Preferred Applications"
5. Close the Preferred Applications control panel
6. Start Firefox again
Actual Results:  
Firefox says it isn't the default browser (although it is).

Expected Results:  
Nothing changed in Preferred Applications so Firefox should have known it is
still the default.

I'm running Fedora Core 2 (GNOME 2.6).

Comment 1

[Carlos Rodrigues]

Still an issue with 1.0rc2.

Comment 2

[R E Broadley]

I can confirm that this bug exists also on KDE. Even though 
my /etc/alternatives/x-www-browser points to konqueror, thunderbird seems to 
ignore it and runs Firefox instead. 
 
How can I make Thunderbird use Konqueror instead please? 

Comment 3

[R E Broadley]

Oh, I'm using version 1.0.2 (on Ubuntu). 

Comment 4

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

Yeah, Thunderbird doesn't use the KDE mimeservice, it uses the GNOME one. 
That's a thunderbird bug.

Is this still happening on GNOME 2.6? GNOME 2.8 does things differently.

Comment 5

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 6

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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