Bug#832298: firefox: Setting default browser creates a new .desktop file in ~/.local/share/applications
Laurent Bigonville
bigon at debian.org
Sat Jul 23 22:58:32 UTC 2016
On Sun, 24 Jul 2016 00:27:04 +0200 Laurent Bigonville <bigon at debian.org>
wrote:
>
> 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.
OK, the issue is that in debian, the MOZ_APP_LAUNCHER environment
variable is not set like it is in fedora.
In Fedora it set in a wrapper script (along with other environment
variables), see [0]
Shouldn't this wrapper script (or something similar) be added in debian too?
Cheers,
Laurent Bigonville
[0] http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/rpms/firefox.git/tree/firefox.sh.in
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