gnome help hangs when you click embedded HTTP link
| Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yelp |
Fix Released
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Medium
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| yelp (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Medium
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Ubuntu Desktop Bugs | ||
Bug Description
repro steps:
1. boot the jaunty live cd
(note: you must not have any firefox windows open)
2. click the help icon on the gnome-panel ("white question mark inside blue circle" icon)
3. the last sentence in the first help document says "Ubuntu has an open and vibrant community of contributors. Find out how to contribute". The last part (i.e. "how to contribute") is a HTTP hyperlink, click on that link.
4. firefox opens the HTTP link
5. wait 5 seconds without doing anything
6. the gnome help viewer now becomes gray and unresponsive
(if you close firefox the help viewer becomes responsible so the problem/bug here is that the gnome help viewer is making a synchronous call to open firefox... the bugfix probably is a one liner).
To understand the problem in more detail, please look at the attached screenshot.
Related branches
| Martin Olsson (mnemo) wrote | #1 |
| affects: | gnome-panel (Ubuntu) → yelp (Ubuntu) |
| Changed in yelp (Ubuntu): | |
| assignee: | nobody → Ubuntu Desktop Bugs (desktop-bugs) |
| importance: | Undecided → Medium |
| status: | New → Triaged |
| Changed in yelp: | |
| status: | Unknown → New |
| Martin Olsson (mnemo) wrote | #2 |
| Changed in yelp: | |
| status: | New → Unknown |
| Changed in yelp: | |
| status: | Unknown → New |
| Changed in yelp: | |
| status: | New → Fix Released |
| Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote | #3 |
| Changed in yelp (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | Triaged → Fix Committed |
| Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote | #4 |
| Changed in yelp (Ubuntu): | |
| status: | Fix Committed → Fix Released |
| Changed in yelp: | |
| importance: | Unknown → Medium |
upstream was marked as dup of another upstream bug so I'm redirecting it here as well... also, now upstream seems to have an uncommited patch attached..