For me, this was caused by my custom .desktop file. I downloaded
Firefox, unpacked it to my home and created a .desktop file for it in
~/.local/share/applicaitons as so:
#!/usr/bin/env xdg-open
[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Terminal=false
Icon[en_US]=firefox
I started to see the same behaviour after the last update under Ubuntu
14.04.2 LTS trusty. So far I was unable to fix it with the suggestions
from above.
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The proposed package fixed the bug for me
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Turned out to be
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/emacs24/+bug/1425972
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Thank you Dominik, I had the same problem with google-chrome browser and
this helped me. I removed ~/.local/share/applications/google-
chrome.desktop and replaced it with /usr/share/applications/google-
chrome.desktop
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Actualy, I just realized the problem was in parameter exec in that
desktop file.. Old one had google-chrome , or /usr/bin/google-chrome
and the new one has
Exec=/usr/bin/google-chrome-stable %U
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Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.
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I have this on precise...
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Changing the default browser under System settings - Information -
Default-Applications - Web has effect, although changing back to
firefox does not fix it.
Changing the command in the gnome property browser under /desktop/gnome
/url-handlers/http/command does not have any effect on gnome-open,
After a lot of digging into the various involved components including
some stracing I found out why it didn't work and how to fix this:
It seems the default applications are found via .desktop files in
/home/user/.local/share/applications. I had some older entries in
there, probably from Ubuntu
It's worth noting that this bug doesn't exhibit itself in a guest
session.
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