Package: xulrunner
Version: 1.8.0.4-1
Severity: important
Tags: patch
I reported the following bug upstream[0]:
I have gvim configured as my preferred text editor in GNOME. Epiphany
seems unable to launch it; when I follow a link, 'open this file?'
window and press Open, gvim is not launched... nothing happens.
gvim.desktop contains:
Exec=gvim -f %U
The Epiphany developers explained that this is caused by Mozilla's use of
deprecated gnome-vfs APIs. There is bug[1] in Mozilla's BTS containing a
patch[2] for the issue.
I set the severity to important because this also happens for openoffice
(which uses 'ooffice -writer %U') as well as any other application that
uses a command line parameter when being launched, and being able to
open downloaded files is a fairly major part of a browser's functionality.
You can confirm the bug exists by trying to follow the following links:
* http://robots.org.uk/src/anne.py
* http://specs.openoffice.org/impress/header_and_footer.sxw
[0] http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=349691
[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=273524
[2] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=185501
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (530, 'testing'), (520, 'unstable'), (510, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.17-1-k7
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
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