FS#25840 - [xdg-open] fails to open local files with default browser

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Dmitry Suzdalev (dimsuz) - Wednesday, 31 August 2011, 12:51 GMT
Last edited by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Friday, 25 May 2012, 16:08 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To Jan de Groot (JGC)
Andreas Radke (AndyRTR)
Architecture i686
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Description:
xdg-open fails to open html urls that start with "file:///"
(see steps to reproduce for example)
Also, while I use chromium as default, it still tries to open firefox, but this might be another issue.


Additional info:
xdg-utils 1.1.0rc1-3
gnome-desktop 3.0.2-1
firefox 6.0-1
chromium 13.0.782.215-1

Steps to reproduce:
1. touch /tmp/file.html
2. xdg-open file:///tmp/file.html
=> gvfs-open: file:///tmp/file.html: error launching application: Failed to execute child process "/usr/lib/firefox-5.0/firefox" (No such file or directory)

OTOH other mime types work ok (i.e. xdg-open file:///1.txt).
I suspect it might be some packaging issue...
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Closed by  Andreas Radke (AndyRTR)
Friday, 25 May 2012, 16:08 GMT
Reason for closing:  No response
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Wednesday, 31 August 2011, 20:59 GMT
Your default browser is set to an outdated version of firefox, so that's why it fails. Use xdg-mime to adjust file association to your default browser.
Comment by Dmitry Suzdalev (dimsuz) - Thursday, 01 September 2011, 10:48 GMT
Hmm.

If i run:
xdg-mime query default text/html

the outputi is:
chromium.desktop

So I'm still not sure. I never did anything past clicking (Set As Default App) in various browsers :)
But if you sure that this isn't some packaging issue, please close this bug. I guess I'll need to move the discussion to forums then :)
Comment by Andreas Radke (AndyRTR) - Sunday, 20 May 2012, 09:31 GMT
Please check xdg-utils-1.1.0-0.20120520-any.pkg.tar.xz in testing and make sure you browser is set properly.

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