[pkg-apparmor] Bug#858911: thunderbird: Apparmor prevents opening links from emails in firefox.

[Michael Biebl]

Am 08.08.2017 um 00:52 schrieb intrigeri:
> Hi!
> 
> intrigeri:
>> Michael Biebl:
>>> Afaics, thunderbird uses x-www-browser by default, which can point at
>>> arbitrary browsers. I also tried with epiphany-browser and chromium.
>>> None of those worked either.
> 
>> Thanks for checking. I'll have a look and ensure all major browsers
>> work fine for this use case.
> 
> Reproduced the problem with Chromium after setting it as the default
> browser in GNOME Control Center ⇒ fix submitted upstream, applied
> locally, will be in apparmor 2.11.0-9 that I'll upload shortly.
> 
> But I can't reproduce the problem with epiphany-browser: I've tried
> selecting "Web" as the default browser in GNOME Control Center, and
> pointing the x-www-browser alternative to /usr/bin/epiphany-browser,
> and links open just fine from Thunderbird ⇒ Michael, can you please
> submit a dedicated bug report (against the apparmor package) about
> this issue, attaching whatever the Journal says about AppArmor?

Hm, seems you're right. Changing the default browser via
update-alternative --config x-www-browser doesn't seem influence the
behaviour of thunderbird when running under GNOME.
Using gnome-control-center to change the default application to Web
(epiphany), thunderbird does open links properly.


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