FS#10918 - My web browser should *not* open my home directory when launched from a Gnome keyboard shortcut

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Joël Schaerer (lardon) - Tuesday, 15 July 2008, 09:59 GMT
Last edited by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Tuesday, 15 July 2008, 10:28 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 2007.08-2
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

Description:

My web browser should *not* open my home directory when launched from a Gnome keyboard shortcut. This seems to be a problem in gnome, since:

-firefox doesn't open my home directory when launched from the command line
-My preferred web browser in Gnome is set to '/usr/lib/firefox-3.0/firefox "%s"', which seems to be right.

My guess is that for some reason gnome thinks it's cool to pass firefox the url "file:///home/login" when you launch it from a keyboard shortcut. Of course this behavior is not configurable. I suppose this might be a bug upstream, but since I haven't experienced this on other distros, I'm reporting it here.

Additional info:
Name : gnome-desktop
Version : 2.22.3-1


Steps to reproduce:

1) Launch firefox from keyboard shortcut in gnome
2) Watch unwanted "home directory" listing.
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Closed by  Jan de Groot (JGC)
Tuesday, 15 July 2008, 10:28 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't fix
Additional comments about closing:  Doesn't appear when removing the quotes or choosing just "firefox" as default browser in gnome.
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Tuesday, 15 July 2008, 10:26 GMT
Removing the quotes around "%s" works for me. I don't know why firefox opens your homedir when the quotes are present. Launching it from terminal as 'firefox ""' doesn't open my homedir.

Edit:
correction, launching '/usr/lib/firefox-3.0/firefox ""' directly instead of using /usr/bin/firefox will display the homedir.

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