Bug 1028902

Summary: pidgin starts sensible-browser '<url>', when Link is clicked
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Niklas Fischer <cdf481f6>
Component: pidginAssignee: Jan Synacek <jsynacek>
Status: CLOSED EOL QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Niklas Fischer 2013-11-11 07:47:41 UTC
Description of problem:
Instead of starting the firefox command, pidgin starts a command called 'sensible-browser', which is not installed in fedora.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Pidgin 2.10.7-3.fc19 (libpurple 2.10.7)

How reproducible:
very

Steps to Reproduce:
In any chat, click any link

Actual results:
Error message stating that the URL could not be opened

Expected results:
webpage in a browser such as firefox

Additional info:
I 'fixed' this by using ln -s /usr/bin/sensible-browser /usr/bin/firefox, but I am not sure this is the way to go.

Comment 1 Fedora Admin XMLRPC Client 2014-02-17 13:01:16 UTC
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Comment 2 Fedora Admin XMLRPC Client 2014-02-17 13:03:14 UTC
This package has changed ownership in the Fedora Package Database.  Reassigning to the new owner of this component.

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Comment 5 Jan Kalina 2016-08-03 13:16:20 UTC
This bug is still present in Fedora 23. (probably in 24 too, but not tested here)

Pidgin use "sensible-browser" command, which doesnt exist in Fedora/RHEL.
(It is probably debian-like specific.)

In theory possible fixes can be:
1) add "xdg-open" support into Pidgin
2)a bit improved Nicolas solution: ln -s /usr/bin/sensible-browser /usr/bin/xdg-open

Comment 6 Jan Kalina 2016-08-03 13:22:23 UTC
*2) sudo ln -s /usr/bin/xdg-open /usr/bin/sensible-browser

Comment 7 Jan Synacek 2016-08-04 06:23:29 UTC
This bug is not present in F23 or F24, check prefs.xml in upstream sources. You probably have a very old configuration, or maybe it was created on a different distribution. To fix this, edit ~/.purple/prefs.xml, key /purple/pidgin/browsers/browser. In my configuration, the value looks like this:

<pref name='browser' type='string' value='xdg-open'/>