Bug#818159: Setting x-www-browser alternative to firefox starts firefox-esr
Gaudenz Steinlin
gaudenz at debian.org
Mon Mar 14 10:30:50 UTC 2016
Package: firefox
Version: 46.0~b1-1
Severity: important
Setting the x-www-browser alternative to firefox does not work because
the logic in /usr/bin/firefox to detect which version should be started
fails. The problem is that $0 in this case is /usr/bin/x-www-browser and
the script then checks for /usr/bin/x-www-browser.real instead of
/usr/bin/firefox.real.
I'm not sure what the purpose of the /usr/bin/firefox script is. If it's
only there to allow starting firefox-esr as firefox as long as the
firefox package is not installed, then it could be simplyfied to just
check for /usr/bin/firefox.real and start that if it exists and start
firefox-esr otherwise. Like this it would no longer use $0 and not
depend on the name it's called.
Another option to solve this issue would be to let the alternative point
to firefox.real directly.
Gaudenz
-- Package-specific info:
-- Extensions information
Name: Adblock Plus
Location: /usr/share/mozilla/extensions/{ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384}/{d10d0bf8-f5b5-c8b4-a8b2-2b9879e08c5d}
Package: xul-ext-adblock-plus
Status: enabled
Name: Certificate Patrol
Location: /usr/share/mozilla/extensions/{ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384}/CertPatrol at PSYC.EU
Package: xul-ext-certificatepatrol
Status: enabled
Name: Debian buttons
Location: /usr/share/mozilla/extensions/{ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384}/{8fb11c5b-84eb-4da0-9128-292eacce2dcb}
Package: xul-ext-debianbuttons
Status: enabled
Name: Default theme
Location: /usr/lib/firefox/browser/extensions/{972ce4c6-7e08-4474-a285-3208198ce6fd}.xpi
Package: firefox
Status: enabled
Name: Deutsch (DE) Language Pack locale
Location: /usr/lib/firefox/browser/extensions/langpack-de at firefox.mozilla.org.xpi
Package: firefox-l10n-de
Status: enabled
Name: DNSSEC/TLSA Validator
Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/dnssec at nic.cz
Status: enabled
Name: Element Hiding Helper for Adblock Plus
Location: /usr/share/mozilla/extensions/{ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384}/elemhidehelper at adblockplus.org
Package: xul-ext-adblock-plus-element-hiding-helper
Status: enabled
Name: Ember Inspector
Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/ember-inspector at emberjs.com.xpi
Status: user-disabled
Name: Extended DNSSEC Validator
Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/extended-validator at os3sec.org
Status: user-disabled
Name: Firebug
Location: /usr/share/mozilla/extensions/{ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384}/firebug at software.joehewitt.com
Package: xul-ext-firebug
Status: enabled
Name: Firefox Hello Beta
Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/loop at mozilla.org.xpi
Status: enabled
Name: Flashblock
Location: /usr/share/mozilla/extensions/{ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384}/{3d7eb24f-2740-49df-8937-200b1cc08f8a}
Package: xul-ext-flashblock
Status: enabled
Name: Français Language Pack locale
Location: /usr/lib/firefox/browser/extensions/langpack-fr at firefox.mozilla.org.xpi
Package: firefox-l10n-fr
Status: enabled
Name: Ghostery
Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/firefox at ghostery.com.xpi
Status: enabled
Name: GNOME Keyring integration
Location: /usr/share/mozilla/extensions/{ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384}/gnome-keyring-integration at sebastianwick.net
Package: xul-ext-gnome-keyring
Status: user-disabled
Name: HTTPS-Everywhere
Location: /usr/share/mozilla/extensions/{ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384}/https-everywhere-eff at eff.org
Package: xul-ext-https-everywhere
Status: enabled
Name: JS Deminifier
Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/jsdeminifier at murphy.ben.name.xpi
Status: enabled
Name: Lightbeam
Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/jid1-F9UJ2thwoAm5gQ at jetpack.xpi
Status: enabled
Name: Monkeysphere
Location: /usr/share/mozilla/extensions/{ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384}/tls-xul-ext at monkeysphere.info
Package: xul-ext-monkeysphere
Status: enabled
Name: NoScript
Location: /usr/share/mozilla/extensions/{ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384}/{73a6fe31-595d-460b-a920-fcc0f8843232}
Package: xul-ext-noscript
Status: enabled
Name: Operator
Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/{95C9A302-8557-4052-91B7-2BB6BA33C885}.xpi
Status: enabled
Name: Pocket
Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/firefox at getpocket.com.xpi
Status: enabled
Name: PrefBar
Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/{8A6C82A1-F6C9-481a-AAE7-C96444C9A754}
Status: enabled
Name: Privacy Badger
Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/jid1-MnnxcxisBPnSXQ-eff at jetpack.xpi
Status: enabled
Name: Send Tab to Device
Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/jid1-mdjmA7if6lo8lA at jetpack.xpi
Status: enabled
Name: ShareMeNot
Location: ${PROFILE_EXTENSIONS}/sharemenot at franziroesner.com.xpi
Status: user-disabled
Name: User Agent Switcher
Location: /usr/share/mozilla/extensions/{ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384}/{e968fc70-8f95-4ab9-9e79-304de2a71ee1}
Package: xul-ext-useragentswitcher
Status: enabled
Name: Video WithOut Flash
Location: /usr/share/mozilla/extensions/{ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384}/vwof at drev.com
Package: xul-ext-video-without-flash
Status: enabled
Name: WOT
Location: /usr/share/mozilla/extensions/{ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384}/{a0d7ccb3-214d-498b-b4aa-0e8fda9a7bf7}
Package: xul-ext-wot
Status: enabled
-- Plugins information
Name: Gnome Shell Integration
Location: /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libgnome-shell-browser-plugin.so
Package: gnome-shell
Status: enabled
Name: IcedTea-Web Plugin (using IcedTea-Web 1.6.2pre (1.6.1-4))
Location: /usr/lib/jvm/java-7-openjdk-amd64/jre/lib/amd64/IcedTeaPlugin.so
Package: icedtea-7-plugin:amd64
Status: enabled
Name: iTunes Application Detector
Location: /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/librhythmbox-itms-detection-plugin.so
Package: rhythmbox-plugins
Status: enabled
-- Addons package information
ii firefox 46.0~b1-1 amd64 Mozilla Firefox web browser
ii firefox-l10n-d 46.0~b1-1 all German language package for Firef
ii firefox-l10n-f 46.0~b1-1 all French language package for Firef
ii gnome-shell 3.18.1-1 amd64 graphical shell for the GNOME des
ii icedtea-7-plug 1.6.1-4 amd64 web browser plugin based on OpenJ
ii rhythmbox-plug 3.3-1 amd64 plugins for rhythmbox music playe
ii xul-ext-adbloc 2.7.2+dfsg-1 all advertisement blocking extension
ii xul-ext-adbloc 1.3.7-1 all companion for Adblock Plus to cre
ii xul-ext-certif 2.0.14-4 all Certificate Monitor for Iceweasel
ii xul-ext-debian 1.11-1 all Buttons for querying Debian-relat
ii xul-ext-firebu 2.0.14-1 all web development plugin for Icewea
ii xul-ext-flashb 1.5.20-1 all Mozilla extension to block Adobe
ii xul-ext-gnome- 0.10-1 all Store mozilla passwords in GNOME
ii xul-ext-https- 5.1.1-2 all extension to force the use of HTT
ii xul-ext-monkey 0.8-2 all Iceweasel/Firefox extension for u
ii xul-ext-noscri 2.9.0.4-1 all permissions manager for Iceweasel
ii xul-ext-userag 0.7.3-2 all Iceweasel/Firefox addon that allo
ii xul-ext-video- 3.1.1-1 all extension to watch videos without
ii xul-ext-wot 20151208-1 all show which websites are trustwort
-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
APT prefers testing-proposed-updates
APT policy: (500, 'testing-proposed-updates'), (500, 'testing'), (100, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.3.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_CH.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 4.7
ii fontconfig 2.11.0-6.3
ii libasound2 1.1.0-1
ii libatk1.0-0 2.18.0-1
ii libc6 2.21-9
ii libcairo2 1.14.6-1
ii libdbus-1-3 1.10.6-1
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 2.11.0-6.3
ii libfreetype6 2.6.3-3
ii libgcc1 1:5.3.1-11
ii libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 2.32.3-1.2
ii libglib2.0-0 2.46.2-3
ii libgtk-3-0 3.18.8-1
ii libgtk2.0-0 2.24.30-1
ii libhunspell-1.3-0 1.3.3-3+b2
ii libnspr4 2:4.12-1
ii libnss3 2:3.23-1
ii libpango-1.0-0 1.38.1-1
ii libsqlite3-0 3.10.2-1
ii libstartup-notification0 0.12-4
ii libstdc++6 5.3.1-11
ii libvpx3 1.5.0-2
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 1:5.0.1-2+b2
ii libxrender1 1:0.9.9-2
ii libxt6 1:1.1.5-1
ii procps 2:3.3.11-3
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.8.dfsg-2+b1
Versions of packages firefox recommends:
ii gstreamer1.0-libav 1.6.3-1
ii gstreamer1.0-plugins-good 1.6.3-1
Versions of packages firefox suggests:
ii fonts-lmodern 2.004.5-1
ii fonts-stix [otf-stix] 1.1.1-4
ii libcanberra0 0.30-2.1
ii libgnomeui-0 2.24.5-3.1
ii libgssapi-krb5-2 1.13.2+dfsg-5
pn mozplugger <none>
-- no debconf information
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