Dell Sputnik

When Firefox sets itself as default browser, all links open the Ubuntu tour

Bug #1100329 reported by Michael Terry
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This bug affects 3 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Dell Sputnik
Confirmed
Medium
Unassigned
firefox (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Low
Unassigned

Bug Description

To reproduce:
1) Install chromium-browser
2) Launch chromium-browser and set it to the default browser (in preferences)
3) Launch firefox and set it back to the default browser (in preferences/advanced)
4) Go to the terminal and type "gvfs-open http://dell.com" (or click on a link in any external program)

What happens:
The Ubuntu tour opens

What I expect:
Dell's homepage to open

More info:
Looking at ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list you can see that a bunch of handlers get set to ubuntu-online-tour.desktop instead of firefox.desktop.

This does not affect stock Ubuntu 12.04

Steve Magoun (smagoun)
Changed in dell-sputnik:
status: New → Confirmed
importance: Undecided → Medium
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Steve Magoun (smagoun) wrote :

The OS on the Sputnik systems includes the ubuntu-online-tour package. This bug doesn't occur if ubuntu-online-tour is not install (or if it is purged before the user sets the default browser back to firefox). Specifically the bug doesn't occur if /usr/share/applications/ubuntu-online-tour.desktop is not present. /usr/share/applications/ubuntu-online-tour doesn't assert any MIME type associations or protocol handlers, so I suspect the problem is in firefox or GNOME rather than ubuntu-online-tour itself.

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Kyle Fazzari (kyrofa) wrote :

Just as a test, instead of changing default browsers through each browser's settings, try this:

$ sudo update-alternatives --config x-www-browser

Does it work better?

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Chris Coulson (chrisccoulson) wrote :

The problem is that the Exec line points to the Firefox executable, and we're using this to pick a desktop file to set as the default app. This could certainly be improved

Changed in firefox (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Low
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in firefox (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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