Alfred Peng wrote on Fri, May 23, 2008 at 23:44:38 US-Pacific: > It works fine on my OpenSolaris 2008.05 here, with a new profile. >
I'm not using a fresh profile, but rather a copy of the one which was in use for 2.0.0.14 (but I am not *sharing* the profile between 3.0rc1 and 2.0.0.14). > I check the gnome config key/value pairs for http handler: > > /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http/command: > $path_for_firefox-3.0rc1/firefox "%s" > /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http/enabled: yes > /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http/needs_terminal: no Yes, these are exactly how I have them. > What does "FAIL" mean here? no response from the system? Not really. A firefox process does get spawned, but it dies quickly (i.e., before I can attach a debugger to it). > Could you enable the checkbox for the key > /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http/needs_terminal and have a try again? > A gnome-terminal should pop up. Is there any error message after that? No, no errors -- checking the needs_terminal "on" does successfully spawn firefox3.0rc1 with the desired URL! This is even more interesting. What could the cause of the difference in behavior be? -UVR. > > Cheers, > -Alfred > > U.V. Ravindra wrote: >> I'm using snv_89. I just downloaded firefox-3.0rc1 from mozilla.org >> and am giving it a test run. >> >> First thing I noticed, clicking on a URL inside thunderbird, x-chat, >> pidgin, (... any other application) FAILS to launch firefox 3.0rc1 >> with that URL. This was working properly in firefox 2.0.0.14 on the >> same system. Reverting back to firefox 2.0.0.14 on the same system >> (no other changes made). >> >> I did make firefox3 set itself as the default browser (did the same >> with 2.0.0.14). I thought maybe this wasn't being done properly, so I >> checked the following with gconf-editor: >> >> /desktop/gnome/applications/browser >> /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http >> /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/https >> /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/ftp >> >> They are all set correctly to the full path of the firefox3 >> installation (to firefox2 when I'm using that). Firefox2 works as >> intended, firefox3 doesn't. >> >> Any ideas about what more I can try or check? >> >> -UVR. >> >> >> This message posted from opensolaris.org >> _______________________________________________ >> desktop-discuss mailing list >> desktop-discuss at opensolaris.org >>
