GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 518994
text/html links on desktop open in Epiphany instead of default browser
Last modified: 2012-05-21 19:56:18 UTC
I have Firefox as my default browser. If I drag a link onto the desktop, then click on it, it opens in Epiphany instead of Firefox. An example file: [Desktop Entry] Version=1.0 Encoding=UTF-8 Name=Link to Obama, Clinton Debate Tactics - washingtonpost.com Type=Link URL=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/26/AR2008022603715.html Icon=gnome-fs-bookmark In nautilus 2.20.x and earlier this type of file opened in the default browser.
This could be related with: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=537563 Seems that html files are handled like a normal file. I would expect that default web browser was used instead of last installed application that blames to handle text/html files. I know that maybe some people would like to open these files with a text editor, but I think that common users would prefer to open them with default web browser. Maybe an option could be open html local files with web-browser by default allowing users to open it with other app if they want by right clicking on file.
This still happens with nautilus 2.23.6.1.
I think this was a side effect of different parts of the system using different VFS subsystems (i.e. gnome-vfs and GIO) during the GIO transition period. Should be fixed with 3.0 and a recent distribution - please reopen if it's not the case.