331089 - [gnome] thunderbird uses the browser specified by x-www-browser, not the one set by the gnome preferred application dialog

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Thunderbird :: General, defect)

Description

[Sebastian Brocks]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060314 Ubuntu/1.0.4 Firefox/1.5.0.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; de; rv:1.8.0.1) Gecko/20060314 Ubuntu/1.0.4 Firefox/1.5.0.1

Thunderbird uses the system-wide default browser (whatever /etc/alternatives/x-www-browser points to), instead of the preferred browser set by the gnome-preferred-applications program, which is a per-user setting.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

I don't think that's true (KDE settings work for me, and x-www-browser seem to point to konqueror). Have you tried to set firefox as default browser in preferences | General? Assuming you want firefox, of course.

Comment 2

[Sebastian Brocks]

Within Thunderbird 1.5, I can't set a default browser in preferences - general.
And the Gnome default browser is set to Firefox.

Comment 3

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Oh, I meant in the Firefox Preferences | General. 

Comment 4

[Mark Stosberg]

Thunderbird 1.5 opens the browser set in the preference: "network.protocol-handler.app.http", which is modifiable under Edit: Preferences: Advanced. 

For me, the following is used, which appears to be a part of Thunderbird:

/usr/lib/mozilla-thunderbird-1.5/open-browser.sh

Looking at the source of this, it /does/ use the browser set in Gnome preferences, by calling "gnome-open". 

This bug sounds basically the same as another, where I attached a patch to also check the KDE preferences for a browser setting:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=334192

Check your setttings in "about:config". If "open-browser.sh" is not being used, it may be your distribution has modifed Thunderbird to use "x-www-browser". If that's the case, let us know, and file a bug for their package of Thunderbird, if you'd like. 

   

Comment 5

[Sebastian Brocks]

My copy of Thunderbird does not have a network.protocol-handler.app.http preference in about:config. This is the Thunderbird shipped with Ubuntu 6.06

Comment 6

[Matěj Cepl]

(In reply to comment #4)
> This bug sounds basically the same as another, where I attached a patch to
> also check the KDE preferences for a browser setting:
> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=334192

No wonder, nobody ever seen attachment 226879 [details] [diff] [review], when it is attached to the Mac OS X bug and dealing with KDE issues.

Mentioning the bug here, or maybe you should reattach it? Certainly it would be worth to follow advice in bug 334192 comment 2 and ask for review of the patch.

Comment 7

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

No, as the patch is not applicable anywhere in the mozilla source (as is).

Comment 8

[Ludovic Hirlimann [:Usul]]

Aren't we moving to using glib for those sorts of settings ? If so should we just WONTFIX this one ?

Comment 9

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Reporter do you still see this problem when using recent version of
Thunderbird?

Comment 10

[Joshua Cranmer [:jcranmer]]

RESOLVED INCOMPLETE due to lack of response to the previous comment. If you feel this change was made in error, please respond to this bug with your reasons why.