[Portland-bugs] [Bug 44047] New: Setting $BROWSER=xdg-open can cause infinite loop

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https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=44047

             Bug #: 44047
           Summary: Setting $BROWSER=xdg-open can cause infinite loop
    Classification: Unclassified
           Product: Portland
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: medium
         Component: xdg-utils
        AssignedTo: portland-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
        ReportedBy: freedesktop.zen.ssokolow at spamgourmet.com


Some applications and scripts still use $BROWSER as their primary means of
allowing user customization.

However, xdg-open makes no attempt to guard against self-calling when falling
back to $BROWSER.

This makes it dangerous to set BROWSER=xdg-open in order to portably integrate
older applications with GUI-based mechanisms for specifying the user's
preferred browser.

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