Bug 89419 – gaim default browser

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Rob H 2005-04-17 08:19:57 UTC]

In GAIM preferences, there is no option for setting the default browser (apparently older versions have this option). When my MSN account says I have mail in Hotmail, it opens gedit instead of my default browser.

More information here:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-2304632.html

Picking Firefox, Mozilla, or using a custom action, none of them work.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Receive mail on Hotmail account
2. Click on Read/Open
3. gedit opens, not a browser

Actual Results:  
See steps 1-3.

Expected Results:  
Opened a new tab if not a browser.

[Comment 1 Rob H 2005-04-17 08:22:48 UTC]

Oh yeah, currently using GAIM 1.2.1 and on a clean install of 2005.0 with gnome-light. When I had 2004.3 or 2004.2 installed with full gnome (and epiphany), it would always open epiphany, never my default browser. When I unmerged epiphany, it would open gedit.

[Comment 2 Don Seiler (RETIRED) 2005-04-18 06:46:29 UTC]

Note that the email notifications actually have to do some work-around for auto-login.  To do this, gaim writes a local file and opens that.  Realise then that gaim has different "preferred browser" settings for http/https:// vs file://.  Change the file:// url handler to firefox and it should behave as you expect.

[Comment 3 Don Seiler (RETIRED) 2005-04-18 06:49:44 UTC]

I mean that _gnome_ has different "preferred browser" settings.

[Comment 4 Rob H 2005-04-18 15:23:42 UTC]

And if I try to open a text file that is local to my computer, will my browser also now open the file?

[Comment 5 Rob H 2005-04-18 15:42:30 UTC]

The file is an HTML file, not a text file, according to the contents of said file. Plus I don't want to auto-login, just bring me to the login page of Hotmail...

[Comment 6 Don Seiler (RETIRED) 2005-04-19 07:45:14 UTC]

The contents of the file don't matter.  What matters is gaim is telling gnome to open a file using the file:// protocol.  I don't know much more because I don't use gnome.

[Comment 7 Rob H 2005-04-19 19:51:02 UTC]

Setting the Preferred Applications for Text to Firefox does change anything. Gedit is still opened.

[Comment 8 Don Seiler (RETIRED) 2005-04-19 20:09:37 UTC]

From what you are describing to me it seems like you haven't read what I've been typing.  Forgive me if I'm wrong.

"Text" has nothing to do with it.  I'm talking about handlers for the file:// protocol.

[Comment 9 Rob H 2005-04-19 20:20:46 UTC]

So, where would I find the file:// handler?

[Comment 10 Don Seiler (RETIRED) 2005-04-22 09:22:10 UTC]

I was mistaken.  You need to change the default app for HTML files, so file content is what matters.  gedit is the default HTML editor.

[Comment 11 Rob H 2005-04-25 11:44:53 UTC]

That's what the problem was. Perhaps this should be changed when emerging GAIM?

[Comment 12 Don Seiler (RETIRED) 2005-04-25 12:22:01 UTC]

No, we won't be changing user preferences.