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I'm running 2.6.23.9 linux kernel fedora 8.
I've gone ahead and downloaded the subversion checkout of the
webbrowser.py file to see the differences. The svn version fixes the
issue, so then I went a hunting as to why.
In the 2.5 version, with a version of firefox running out of my home
directory (but still in my path) webbrowser calles BackgroundBrowser
instead of UnixBrowser.
BackgroundBrowser calls subprocess.Popen(cmdline), where cmdline is a
tuble in form ['/browser/path', '"http://example.com"'], and subprocess
doesn't use/like the double quotes (probably legacy os.popen format)
The difference in the two webbrowser scripts that fixes it is thus:
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> # The default Gnome browser
> if _iscommand("gconftool-2"):
> # get the web browser string from gconftool
> gc = 'gconftool-2 -g /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http/command
2>/dev/n
ull'
> out = os.popen(gc)
> commd = out.read().strip()
> retncode = out.close()
> 
> # if successful, register it
> if retncode is None and commd:
> register("gnome", None, BackgroundBrowser(commd.split()))
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< # The default GNOME browser
< if "GNOME_DESKTOP_SESSION_ID" in os.environ and
_iscommand("gnome-open"):
< register("gnome-open", None, BackgroundBrowser("gnome-open"))
< 
< # The default KDE browser
< if "KDE_FULL_SESSION" in os.environ and _iscommand("kfmclient"):
< register("kfmclient", Konqueror, Konqueror("kfmclient"))
< 
< # The Mozilla/Netscape browsers
so it appears to be a problem with gconf that python has to work around.
see: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/python2.5/+bug/83974
So as long as it is in trunk 2.5.2 should fix it! (the patch is not in
2.5.1). thanks.