<html>
<head>
<base href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/" />
</head>
<body><table border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="8">
<tr>
<th>Priority</th>
<td>medium
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>Bug ID</th>
<td><a class="bz_bug_link
bz_status_NEW "
title="NEW --- - xdg-open doesn't honor $BROWSER in "generic" environment"
href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=59104">59104</a>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>Assignee</th>
<td>portland-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>Summary</th>
<td>xdg-open doesn't honor $BROWSER in "generic" environment
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>Severity</th>
<td>normal
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>Classification</th>
<td>Unclassified
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>OS</th>
<td>Linux (All)
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>Reporter</th>
<td>goeran@uddeborg.se
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>Hardware</th>
<td>Other
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>Status</th>
<td>NEW
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>Version</th>
<td>1.1.0
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>Component</th>
<td>xdg-utils
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>Product</th>
<td>Portland
</td>
</tr></table>
<p>
<div>
<pre>As I understand it, the intended way to choose the preferred browser in a
"generic" desktop environment is to set the environment variable $BROWSER. But
when running xdg-open on a URL in such an environment, it will use whatever
browser comes first when searching for desktop files with
"x-scheme-handler/http" among the MimeType:s. $BROWSER is only taken into
account if no such desktop file exists.
I would have thought the call to open_generic_xdg_x_scheme_handler() in
open_generic() in xdg-open ought to come AFTER the "for browser in $BROWSER"
loop.
When testing on my Fedora box with
xdg-utils-1.1.0-0.14.20120809git.fc18.noarch, if I open a URL with xdg-open, it
comes up in epiphany. Both epiphany.desktop and firefox.desktop lists
"x-scheme-handler/http", and since "e" comes before "f", epiphany wins. I have
$BROWSER set to "firefox", but that is apparently ignored.</pre>
</div>
</p>
<hr>
<span>You are receiving this mail because:</span>
<ul>
<li>You are the assignee for the bug.</li>
</ul>
</body>
</html>