[4.10, Xubuntu] Preferred applications: Firefox 36 issue

[Friedrich Strohmaier]

Hi Lars, *,

Am 01.03.2015 um 13:24 schrieb Lars Behrens:

> can someone confirm that Firefox 36.0 does not follow external links
> (links from other applications like e.g. Thunderbird) as long as the
> browser is set to "Firefox"?

cannot confirm.

Settings
Default webbrowser: Mozilla Firefox

$ xdg-settings get default-web-browser
firefox.desktop

$ find .config/ .local/ -iname firefox.desktop
.local/share/applications/firefox.desktop

$ cat .local/share/applications/firefox.desktop
[Desktop Entry]
Comment[de]=
Comment=
Exec=/home/frieder/lib/firefox/firefox
GenericName[de]=
GenericName=
Icon=/home/frieder/lib/firefox/icons/mozicon128.png
MimeType=
Name[de]=firefox
Name=firefox
Path=
StartupNotify=true
Terminal=false
TerminalOptions=
Type=Application
X-DBUS-ServiceName=
X-DBUS-StartupType=
X-TDE-SubstituteUID=false
X-TDE-Username=
Categories=Network;

In thunderbird clicking at https://mail.xfce.org/mailman/listinfo/xfce at the
bottom of this mail opens a new tab in firefox leading at the desired URL.

config:
Mozilla Firefox 36.0 (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:36.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/36.0)

~]$ exo-open -V
exo-open 0.10.2

archlinux
$ uname -a
Linux <myHost> 3.18.6-1-ARCH #1

Friedrich