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Bug 621093 - [info] Wrong browser is launched when double clicking a link desktop entry (.desktop) file
[info] Wrong browser is launched when double clicking a link desktop entry (....
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 674084
Product: gnome-control-center
Classification: Core
Component: Other Preferences
2.30.x
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: Control-Center Maintainers
Control-Center Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2010-06-09 11:59 UTC by Jakob Unterwurzacher
Modified: 2013-01-11 08:50 UTC
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Description Jakob Unterwurzacher 2010-06-09 11:59:17 UTC 
This bug is about .desktop links (see below for example) opening in the wrong browser. They open in firefox although my preferred browser is Google Chrome.

Bug 169670 deals with file association vs preferred browser and is controversial, but also has some comments on this issue ( for example https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=169670#c13 ).


http://launchpadlibrarian.net/50005972/Google.desktop
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[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Link to Google
Type=Link
URL=http://www.google.com/
Icon=gnome-fs-bookmark
Comment 1 William Jon McCann 2012-08-30 21:34:15 UTC 
I think it is pretty weird to have html files not be associated with the default web browser. I think the default applications settings should just do that.
Comment 2 Bastien Nocera 2013-01-11 08:50:23 UTC 
The code will do that as long as the web browser advertises that it supports text/html.

Thanks for the bug report. This particular bug has already been reported into our bug tracking system, but please feel free to report any further bugs you find.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 674084 ***