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.
(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
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).
[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 ~]
What happens if you just remove /home/arthur/.local/share/applications/mozilla-firefox.desktop ? Thank you for the patience with us
Thank you Matej! I uninstalled Firefox, deleted the file, then installed it a fresh. It now works OK. You rock!
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 ;))
Could it be remnants of upgrading from ff 4?