Bug#832298: firefox: Setting default browser creates a new .desktop file in ~/.local/share/applications

[Laurent Bigonville]

Package: firefox
Version: 47.0.1-1
Severity: important

Hi,

When clicking a the button in the options to set the default browser, it
creates a new .desktop file in ~/.local/share/applications.

This confuse gnome-control-center. Also, I don't see this happening in
Fedora and this shouldn't happen in debian.

What I can see is that in this .desktop file the path to the executable
is /usr/lib/firefox/firefox and not just "firefox", I feel this is
related.

Cheers,

Laurent Bigonville

$ cat ~/.local/share/applications/userapp-Firefox-7EOOIY.desktop 
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Version=1.0
Type=Application
NoDisplay=true
Exec=/usr/lib/firefox/firefox %u
Name=Firefox
Comment=Définition personnalisée pour Firefox

-- Addons package information
ii  firefox        47.0.1-1     amd64        Mozilla Firefox web browser
ii  firefox-l10n-f 47.0.1-1     all          French language package for Firef
ii  gnome-shell    3.20.3-1     amd64        graphical shell for the GNOME des
ii  google-talkplu 5.41.3.0-1   amd64        Google Talk Plugin
ii  icedtea-8-plug 1.6.2-3      amd64        web browser plugin based on OpenJ
ii  rhythmbox-plug 3.3.1-2      amd64        plugins for rhythmbox music playe
ii  xul-ext-adbloc 2.7.3+dfsg-1 all          advertisement blocking extension 

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers unstable-debug
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental-debug'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.6.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_BE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_BE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages firefox depends on:
ii  debianutils               4.8
ii  fontconfig                2.11.0-6.4
ii  libasound2                1.1.1-2
ii  libatk1.0-0               2.20.0-1
ii  libc6                     2.23-2
ii  libcairo2                 1.14.6-1+b1
ii  libdbus-1-3               1.10.8-1
ii  libdbus-glib-1-2          0.106-1
ii  libevent-2.0-5            2.0.21-stable-2+b1
ii  libffi6                   3.2.1-4
ii  libfontconfig1            2.11.0-6.4
ii  libfreetype6              2.6.3-3+b1
ii  libgcc1                   1:6.1.1-9
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0        2.34.0-1
ii  libglib2.0-0              2.48.1-2
ii  libgtk2.0-0               2.24.30-4
ii  libhunspell-1.4-0         1.4.1-2
ii  libnspr4                  2:4.12-2
ii  libnss3                   2:3.23-2bigon1
ii  libpango-1.0-0            1.40.1-1
ii  libsqlite3-0              3.13.0-1
ii  libstartup-notification0  0.12-4
ii  libstdc++6                6.1.1-9
ii  libvpx3                   1.5.0-3
ii  libx11-6                  2:1.6.3-1
ii  libxcomposite1            1:0.4.4-1
ii  libxdamage1               1:1.1.4-2+b1
ii  libxext6                  2:1.3.3-1
ii  libxfixes3                1:5.0.2-1
ii  libxrender1               1:0.9.9-2
ii  libxt6                    1:1.1.5-1
ii  procps                    2:3.3.12-2
ii  zlib1g                    1:1.2.8.dfsg-2+b1

firefox recommends no packages.

Versions of packages firefox suggests:
pn  fonts-lmodern          <none>
pn  fonts-stix | otf-stix  <none>
ii  libcanberra0           0.30-3
ii  libgnomeui-0           2.24.5-3.1
ii  libgssapi-krb5-2       1.14.2+dfsg-1
pn  mozplugger             <none>

-- no debconf information