Bug 707869

Summary:	Firefox not opening links called from apps
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Arthur Buliva <arthurbuliva>
Component:	firefox	Assignee:	Gecko Maintainer <gecko-bugs-nobody>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	15	CC:	gecko-bugs-nobody, mcepl
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Description Arthur Buliva 2011-05-26 08:23:31 UTC

Description of problem:

Whenever I click on a link on Empathy or Evolution, Firefox opens up OK but it goes to the home page instead of opening the requested link. 


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Firefox 4.0.1 (firefox-4.0.1-2.fc15.i686)

How reproducible:
Always happens

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Set Firefox as the default browser
2. Click on a link in either Empathy or Evolution
  
Actual results:
Firefox opens home page

Expected results:
Firefox should open the clicked link


Additional info:
I have tried setting Google Chrome as default browser and it opens the links OK. I also tried disabling all extensions on Firefox but was not successful in getting the links to open.

Comment 1 Matěj Cepl 2011-07-27 05:36:57 UTC

(In reply to comment #0)
> Whenever I click on a link on Empathy or Evolution, Firefox opens up OK but it
> goes to the home page instead of opening the requested link. 

Please give us result for these two commands:

locate \*firefox\*.desktop

and (that should be one line)

locate \*firefox\*.desktop|while read DSFILE ; do echo $DSFILE: ; grep ^Exec $DSFILE ; done

Thank you

Comment 2 Matěj Cepl 2011-07-27 05:39:16 UTC

For comparison, my results:

bradford:~ $ locate \*firefox\*.desktop
/home/matej/.local/share/applications/mozilla-firefox.desktop
/usr/share/applications/mozilla-firefox.desktop
bradford:~ $ locate \*firefox\*.desktop|while read DSFILE ; do echo $DSFILE: ; grep ^Exec $DSFILE ; done
/home/matej/.local/share/applications/mozilla-firefox.desktop:
Exec=aurora %u
/usr/share/applications/mozilla-firefox.desktop:
Exec=firefox %u
bradford:~ $ 

(ignore the fact that one of my firefoxes is in the shell script named aurora ... testing requires using various unstable versions).

Comment 3 Arthur Buliva 2011-07-27 17:22:14 UTC

[arthur@armadillo ~]$ locate \*firefox\*.desktop
/home/arthur/.local/share/applications/mozilla-firefox.desktop
/usr/share/applications/mozilla-firefox.desktop
[arthur@armadillo ~]$ locate \*firefox\*.desktop|while read DSFILE ; do echo $DSFILE: ;
> grep ^Exec $DSFILE ; done
/home/arthur/.local/share/applications/mozilla-firefox.desktop:
Exec=firefox
/usr/share/applications/mozilla-firefox.desktop:
Exec=firefox %u
[arthur@armadillo ~]

Comment 4 Matěj Cepl 2011-07-28 00:13:40 UTC

What happens if you just remove /home/arthur/.local/share/applications/mozilla-firefox.desktop ?

Thank you for the patience with us

Comment 5 Arthur Buliva 2011-07-28 08:24:13 UTC

Thank you Matej! I uninstalled Firefox, deleted the file, then installed it a fresh. It now works OK. You rock!

Comment 6 Matěj Cepl 2011-07-28 15:15:16 UTC

Glad I could help.

Closing as NOTABUG (although it might be interesting to find what created that /home/arthur/.local/share/applications/mozilla-firefox.desktop, but Ars longa, vita brevis, err. life is short, bugs are many ;))

Comment 7 Arthur Buliva 2011-07-30 13:44:34 UTC

Could it be remnants of upgrading from ff 4?