[Bug 353372] Re: BOINC patch 003 launches the wrong browser

[Daniel Hahler]

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> So ExecuteLink was patched - I assume that patch was in the debian
code?

Yes, it's shipped with the Debian source package and gets applied when
building the binary packages.

> IANE on linux, but, reading the bug description at the top I quote
> " this patch is less than helpful when using Ubuntu, since Epiphany
> is not installed by default. It should at least default to firefox or,
> ideally, use /etc/alternatives/x-www-browser."

That's wrong, as far as I can see.

I would suggest using x-www-browser, too, but sensible-browser appears
to be a tad more sensible, taking $BROWSER and gnome-www-browser into
account.

Where does /etc/alternatives/gnome-www-browser point at?

Does starting /usr/bin/gnome-www-browser work for you?

> Anyway, this is really a minor problem and can be worked around by
> selecting any of the other browsers listed in that default apps program.

I still fail to see where the bug really is here.
I'm no gnome user, but it worked when I've tried it yesterday (and before).
We could drop the patch for Ubuntu, or use xdg-open, or x-www-browser.
But first the problem needs to get pinned down.

> There are much worse bugs to solve.  Currently, I had to go back to
> 8.1 (from 9.1) because of bugs involving CUDA devices.

You're switching Ubuntu releases because of bugs in the boinc package?
You could have just installed the boinc package from 8.10 in 9.10
probably (and maybe this is what you did already).


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BOINC patch 003 launches the wrong browser
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