Package: iceweasel
Version: 3.6.13-2
Severity: wishlist
Modern Gnome desktops look at the scheme of a URL (i.e the http:// part)
first to determine with which application to open it. When one has multiple
browsers installed and only one of them supports said scheme it will always
be used to open the URL. This happens when one ctrl-clicks on a URL in
gnome-terminal or uses a utility like gvfs-open (or even xdg-open which uses
gvfs-open under water).
In my case I have iceweasel, epiphany and chromium installed. Only chromium
currently indicates in its desktop files that it knows how to handle http
schemes. And although I have made iceweasel my default browser when I
ctrl-click on a URL in gnome-terminal it will always be opened with
chromium.
However, as soon as I added the schemes to the iceweasel.desktop file and
ran update-desktop-database to regenerate the mimeinfo.cache file this
changed. Now when I ctrl-click on a URL in gnome-terminal both chromium and
iceweasel will be considered for opening the URL and somewhere deep in the
bowels of Gnome it is discovered that I have made iceweasel my default
browser and hence it opens the URL in iceweasel instead of chromium. In
short exactly the behaviour I want... :)
To accomplish this I made the following changes:
--- iceweasel.desktop.ORIG 2011-02-12 21:09:14.000000000 +0100
+++ iceweasel.desktop 2011-02-12 21:11:00.000000000 +0100
@@ -99,6 +99,6 @@ X-MultipleArgs=false
Type=Application
Icon=iceweasel
Categories=Network;WebBrowser;
-MimeType=text/html;text/xml;application/xhtml+xml;application/xml;application/vnd.mozilla.xul+xml;application/rss+xml;application/rdf+xml;image/gif;image/jpeg;image/png;
+MimeType=text/html;text/xml;application/xhtml+xml;application/xml;application/vnd.mozilla.xul+xml;application/rss+xml;application/rdf+xml;image/gif;image/jpeg;image/png;x-scheme-handler/http;x-scheme-handler/https;
StartupWMClass=Firefox-bin
StartupNotify=true
Could you please add these changes to the iceweasel.desktop file to have it
considered on even footing with chromium?
(I have sent a similar bugreport the the epiphany maintainers)
Arjan
-- Package-specific info:
-- Extensions information
Name: Adblock Plus
Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/{d10d0bf8-f5b5-c8b4-a8b2-2b9879e08c5d}
Status: enabled
Name: AniDisable
Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/{0F06271E-61EF-46b8-ACC2-99BAD4BB9F89}
Status: enabled
Name: CookieCuller
Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/{99B98C2C-7274-45a3-A640-D9DF1A1C8460}
Status: enabled
Name: Default
Location: /usr/lib/iceweasel/extensions/{972ce4c6-7e08-4474-a285-3208198ce6fd}
Package: iceweasel
Status: enabled
Name: Flashblock
Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/{3d7eb24f-2740-49df-8937-200b1cc08f8a}
Status: enabled
Name: Nuke Anything Enhanced
Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/{1ced4832-f06e-413f-aa14-9eb63ad40ace}
Status: enabled
Name: QuickJava
Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/{E6C1199F-E687-42da-8C24-E7770CC3AE66}
Status: enabled
Name: User Agent Switcher
Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/{e968fc70-8f95-4ab9-9e79-304de2a71ee1}
Status: enabled
-- Plugins information
Name: DivX® Web Player
Location: /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libtotem-mully-plugin.so
Package: totem-mozilla
Status: enabled
Name: IcedTea NPR Web Browser Plugin (using IcedTea6 1.8.5 (6b18-1.8.5-1))
Location: /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/lib/i386/IcedTeaPlugin.so
Package: icedtea6-plugin
Status: disabled
Name: QuickTime Plug-in 7.6.6
Location: /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libtotem-narrowspace-plugin.so
Package: totem-mozilla
Status: enabled
Name: Shockwave Flash
Location: /usr/lib/flashplayer-mozilla/libflashplayer.so
Package: flashplayer-mozilla
Status: enabled
Name: VLC Multimedia Plugin (compatible Totem 2.30.2)
Location: /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libtotem-cone-plugin.so
Package: totem-mozilla
Status: enabled
Name: Windows Media Player Plug-in 10 (compatible; Totem)
Location: /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libtotem-gmp-plugin.so
Package: totem-mozilla
Status: enabled
-- Addons package information
ii flashplayer-mo 2:10.1.102.64- Macromedia Flash Player
ii icedtea6-plugi 6b18-1.8.5-1 web browser plugin based on OpenJDK and Iced
ii iceweasel 3.6.13-2 Web browser based on Firefox
ii totem-mozilla 2.30.2-6 Totem Mozilla plugin
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.37
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Versions of packages iceweasel depends on:
ii debianutils 3.4.3 Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii fontconfig 2.8.0-2.1 generic font configuration library
ii libc6 2.11.2-11 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libgcc1 1:4.4.5-10 GCC support library
ii libglib2.0-0 2.28.0-1 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.20.1-2 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libnspr4-0d 4.8.6-1 NetScape Portable Runtime Library
ii libstdc++6 4.4.5-10 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii procps 1:3.2.8-10 /proc file system utilities
ii xulrunner-1.9.2 1.9.2.13-2 XUL + XPCOM application runner
iceweasel recommends no packages.
Versions of packages iceweasel suggests:
ii libgssapi-krb5-2 1.8.3+dfsg-4 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries - k
pn mozplugger <none> (no description available)
ii ttf-lyx 2.0.0~beta4-1 TrueType versions of some TeX font
pn ttf-mathematica4.1 <none> (no description available)
ii xfonts-mathml 4 Type1 Symbol font for MathML
pn xprint <none> (no description available)
Versions of packages xulrunner-1.9.2 depends on:
ii libasound2 1.0.23-2.1 shared library for ALSA applicatio
ii libatk1.0-0 1.30.0-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit
ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.5-6 high-quality block-sorting file co
ii libc6 2.11.2-11 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libcairo2 1.10.2-2 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii libdbus-1-3 1.4.1-2 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libevent-1.4-2 1.4.13-stable-1 An asynchronous event notification
ii libffi5 3.0.9-3 Foreign Function Interface library
ii libfontconfig1 2.8.0-2.1 generic font configuration library
ii libfreetype6 2.4.2-2.1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libgcc1 1:4.4.5-10 GCC support library
ii libglib2.0-0 2.28.0-1 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.20.1-2 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libhunspell-1.2-0 1.2.14-4 spell checker and morphological an
ii libjpeg62 6b1-1 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
ii libmozjs3d 1.9.2.13-2 The Mozilla SpiderMonkey JavaScrip
ii libnspr4-0d 4.8.6-1 NetScape Portable Runtime Library
ii libnss3-1d 3.12.8-2 Network Security Service libraries
ii libpango1.0-0 1.28.3-1+squeeze1 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii libpixman-1-0 0.21.4-2 pixel-manipulation library for X a
ii libpng12-0 1.2.44-1 PNG library - runtime
ii libreadline6 6.1-3 GNU readline and history libraries
ii libsqlite3-0 3.7.4-2 SQLite 3 shared library
ii libstartup-notificatio 0.10-1 library for program launch feedbac
ii libstdc++6 4.4.5-10 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libx11-6 2:1.4.1-4 X11 client-side library
ii libxrender1 1:0.9.6-1 X Rendering Extension client libra
ii libxt6 1:1.0.9-2 X11 toolkit intrinsics library
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime
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