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Bug 81446 - OpenOffice-1.1.4 writer doesn't handle HTTP external program properly
Summary: OpenOffice-1.1.4 writer doesn't handle HTTP external program properly
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 78890
Alias: None
Product: Gentoo Linux
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Current packages (show other bugs)
Hardware: All All
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Office Team
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Reported: 2005-02-09 20:12 UTC by Lindsay Haisley
Modified: 2005-07-17 13:06 UTC (History)
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Description Lindsay Haisley 2005-02-09 20:12:22 UTC
Setting the HTTP external program in OO Tools | Options dialog doesn't work properly.  This may be a mozilla bug, but here's what happens.

Setting this program to 'firefox' should access the symbolic link /usr/bin/firefox which links to the executable shell script /usr/libexec/mozilla-launcher.  This script knows the name by which it was called and runs through a set of cases to do the proper setup.  However, no matter whether I use firefox or mozilla as the HTTP external app, the script fails with the followng error:

/usr/libexec/mozilla-launcher: unknown browser

Modifying script to show the name of the calling program in this error, I would get:

/usr/libexec/mozilla-launcher: mozilla-launcher: unknown browser

What's apparently happening here is that Open Office is dereferencing the symbolic links /usr/bin/firefox and /usr/bin/mozilla internally and calling /usr/libexec/mozilla-launcher directly, which won't work since this script must be called using the symbolic links.  Using galeon, or calling /usr/lib/mozilla/mozilla-bin instead (both of which are executables rather than links) works as expected.
Comment 1 Paul de Vrieze (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2005-02-11 02:26:39 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 78890 ***