[Pkg-chromium-maint] Bug#612876: chromium-browser: Forcibly takes over http and https handling, ignoring settings for default browser
Josh Triplett
josh at joshtriplett.org
Fri Feb 11 09:04:39 UTC 2011
Package: chromium-browser
Version: 9.0.597.84~r72991-1
Severity: important
(Seriously considered reporting this as "critical", since it breaks
the configured setup with GNOME and iceweasel, but this may represent an
ongoing transition.)
Upgrading chromium-browser caused it to forcibly take over handling of
http and https, in spite of the many different places I've set iceweasel
as the default browser (via $BROWSER and via GNOME's "Preferred
Applications"). This change seems like the likely culprit:
* Add x-scheme-handler/http and x-scheme-handler/https to the MimeType
entry of the desktop file
Short of reading the chromium-browser changelog, I don't see any obvious
way for a user to track down the reason for this behavior; it just makes
it look like GNOME started ignoring the settings for the default
browser. (And since I upgraded iceweasel around the same time, I
also looked there to see if it had changed something relevant that
caused it to no longer provide a browser for GNOME.)
In any case, this mechanism seems to take priority over the several
existing ways of specifying a default browser, without respecting the
existing preferences, and without any way to set the *new* preference.
And in any case, even if a new mechanism did exist to set the new
preference, that would still have the effect of overriding the user's
existing setting and forcing them to set it over again.
- Josh Triplett
-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.37-trunk-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Versions of packages chromium-browser depends on:
ii chromium-browser-ins 9.0.597.84~r72991-1 page inspector for the chromium-br
ii libasound2 1.0.23-2.1 shared library for ALSA applicatio
ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.5-6 high-quality block-sorting file co
ii libc6 2.11.2-11 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib
ii libcairo2 1.10.2-2 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra
ii libcups2 1.4.5-3 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) -
ii libdbus-1-3 1.4.1-2 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.88-2.1 simple interprocess messaging syst
ii libevent-1.4-2 1.4.13-stable-1 An asynchronous event notification
ii libexpat1 2.0.1-7 XML parsing C library - runtime li
ii libfontconfig1 2.8.0-2.1 generic font configuration library
ii libfreetype6 2.4.2-2.1 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib
ii libgcc1 1:4.4.5-10 GCC support library
ii libgconf2-4 2.28.1-6 GNOME configuration database syste
ii libgcrypt11 1.4.5-2 LGPL Crypto library - runtime libr
ii libglib2.0-0 2.28.0-1 The GLib library of C routines
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.20.1-2 The GTK+ graphical user interface
ii libicu44 4.4.2-2 International Components for Unico
ii libjpeg62 6b1-1 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG
ii libnspr4-0d 4.8.6-1 NetScape Portable Runtime Library
ii libnss3-1d 3.12.9~beta2-1 Network Security Service libraries
ii libpango1.0-0 1.28.3-1+squeeze1 Layout and rendering of internatio
ii libpng12-0 1.2.44-1 PNG library - runtime
ii libspeex1 1.2~rc1-1 The Speex codec runtime library
ii libstdc++6 4.4.5-10 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3
ii libv8-2.5.9.9 2.5.9.9-2 V8 JavaScript Engine
ii libvpx0 0.9.5-2 VP8 video codec (shared library)
ii libx11-6 2:1.4.1-4 X11 client-side library
ii libxdamage1 1:1.1.3-1 X11 damaged region extension libra
ii libxext6 2:1.2.0-2 X11 miscellaneous extension librar
ii libxml2 2.7.8.dfsg-2 GNOME XML library
ii libxrender1 1:0.9.6-1 X Rendering Extension client libra
ii libxslt1.1 1.1.26-6 XSLT 1.0 processing library - runt
ii libxss1 1:1.2.1-1 X11 Screen Saver extension library
ii libxtst6 2:1.2.0-1 X11 Testing -- Record extension li
ii xdg-utils 1.1.0~rc1-1 desktop integration utilities from
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime
chromium-browser recommends no packages.
Versions of packages chromium-browser suggests:
pn chromium-browser-l10n <none> (no description available)
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