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Bug 65789 - GIMP crashes when switching from internal to 'Netscape' browser
GIMP crashes when switching from internal to 'Netscape' browser
Status: VERIFIED FIXED
Product: GIMP
Classification: Other
Component: User Interface
1.x
Other Windows
: Normal normal
: ---
Assigned To: GIMP Bugs
Daniel Egger
: 51229 (view as bug list)
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2001-11-30 02:56 UTC by Branko Collin
Modified: 2009-08-15 18:40 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---

Attachments
This should fix the crash. (320 bytes, patch)
2001-12-29 22:54 UTC, Tor Lillqvist 		none Details | Review
This seems to fix the problem of getting a directory view (instead of introduction.html) after confirming "Use Netscape instead" (1.67 KB, patch)
2001-12-29 23:15 UTC, Tor Lillqvist 		none Details | Review

Description Branko Collin 2001-11-30 02:56:26 UTC 
If I set the browser to Internal in the Interface/Help System of the
<Toolbox>/Preferences... dialog, then select <Toolbox>/Help/Help..., a
dialog will pop up ("Could not find GIMP Help Browser") and tell me that I
do not have the internal help browser installed. The dialog will offer me
to "Use Netscape instead". If I click on that button, GIMP crashes. 
This problem also occurs in WinGIMP 1.2.3-pre2
Comment 1 Raphaël Quinet 2001-12-03 09:16:08 UTC 
Hi Colin!  I don't have the Windows version so I cannot check if this
bug is real or not, but I trust you for sending good bug reports so I
will confirm this and set its status to NEW.
Comment 2 Tor Lillqvist 2001-12-29 22:54:29 UTC 
Created attachment 6317 [details] [review]
This should fix the crash.
Comment 3 Tor Lillqvist 2001-12-29 23:03:13 UTC 
Applying that patch still leaves another problem, though: After 
replying affirmatively to the "Use Netscape instead" dialog, the 
user's default web browser does indeed open up, but instead of 
showing the "introduction.html" document the contents of the help/C 
directory is showed (because idle_help->help_data is still NULL).

BTW, the word "Netscape" should be changed to "default web browser" 
on Windows.
Comment 4 Tor Lillqvist 2001-12-29 23:15:40 UTC 
Created attachment 6318 [details] [review]
This seems to fix the problem of getting a directory view (instead of introduction.html) after confirming "Use Netscape instead"
Comment 5 Tor Lillqvist 2001-12-31 08:42:14 UTC 
Fixed in CVS gimp-1-2. In HEAD we probably want to revamp it more 
throroughly, it is a bit silly to even let the user choose 
the "internal" browser if it isn't available.
Comment 6 Raphaël Quinet 2002-02-12 09:34:04 UTC 
Fix is part of gimp-1.2.3, which has just been released.
Bug is now CLOSED.
Comment 7 Michael Natterer 2002-02-12 18:40:28 UTC 
*** Bug 51229 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***