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apport package

  1. Bug #96503
  2. Comment #9

Comment 9 for bug 96503

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Tore Anderson (toreanderson) wrote :

Ran into this problem as MusicBrainz Picard was unable to open the browser (it's not Apport-specific).

Quoting Matthew Nuzum:

matt@matts-laptop:~$ gconftool --get /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http/command
firefox -remote "openurl(%s,new-tab)"

It was the same in my installation. The problem is the presence of the double quotes. The fix is simple:

gconftool --set /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http/command --type=string 'firefox -remote openurl(%s,new-tab)'

This bug should probably be reassigned somewhere, but I am not familiar enough with Gnome to say if it's Firefox or GConf that's at fault here for defaulting to the broken value.

Tore