Bug 475076
| Summary: | Netbeans not launching external browser firefox | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Richard Chan <rc556677> |
| Component: | netbeans | Assignee: | Victor G. Vasilyev <victor.vasilyev> |
| Status: | CLOSED NOTABUG | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | low | ||
| Version: | 10 | CC: | victor.vasilyev |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Last Closed: | 2008-12-09 14:40:26 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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The following menu items works - though - Help->Online Docs and Support successfully creates a new tab (existing firefox process) to http://www.netbeans.org/kb/index.html Ignore the comment about Help->Start Page in the original bug report. Hello Richard, Please, use the link https://inventory.sun.com/RegistrationWeb/nb/default/en_US/register-login.jsp in your browser as a workaround to obtain info about registration of your NetBeans IDE. It seems the release netbeans-6.1-9.fc10 (where Bug #467546 has been fixed) doesn't resolve the problem "Help->Register" described by you :-( I'll investigate the issue with start of browser more carefully... Richard, I can't repeat the bug. A click on the menu item Help/Register always opens the registration page in the Mozilla Firefox (3.0.2-1.fc10) for me. Could you please, provide more details about a configuration where the bug occurs. Is it possible to open the registration page manually via Mozilla Firefox on your Fedora box? Problem solved. Sorry. My userid had a bad https url handler in gconf-editor. This was a legacy issue from my Fedora 8 desktop as I had a 32-bit parallel install of firefox which no longer worked under Fedora 10. When I reset all the different mime handlers using gconf-editor back to the default 'firefix %s' Netbeans was able to launch everything. It is a good news that a cause of the issue is not the NetBeans software. No problem. It was occasion to double check my solution in this complex area (launch of the linux native applications from inside Java). I'll close this with the resolution NOTABUG, but, please, feel free to reopen it if you will find something wrong. |
Description of problem: Netbeans is not launching an external browser(firefox) in response to Help->Start Page or Help->Register menu items. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): netbeans-platform8-6.1-5.fc10.noarch netbeans-resolver-6.1-5.fc10.noarch netbeans-platform8-harness-6.1-5.fc10.noarch netbeans-java2-6.1-9.fc10.noarch netbeans-6.1-9.fc10.noarch netbeans-svnclientadapter-6.1-3.fc10.noarch netbeans-apisupport1-6.1-9.fc10.noarch netbeans-javaparser-6.1-2.fc10.noarch netbeans-ide9-6.1-9.fc10.noarch How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Start netbeans 2. Select menu item: Help->Register 3. In preferences, the browser setting is /usr/bin/firefox -remote "openURL({URL})" Actual results: Nothing happens Expected results: netbeans will open external browser window to the registration page. Additional info: