Clicking the project urls on the boincmgr app "project page" no longer launches firefox. I see the hint "launching browser" but nothing launches. This worked fine on 8.04

I checked the default programs and changed firefox to launch a new window, launch a tab, etc, none of those made any difference. It fails to launch anything. Firefox works fine, and I can bring it up from the task bar. I just cant bring it up from boincmgr anymore

Is this a security feature of ubuntu 9.1?

thanks for looking.

BOINC Manager follows the default browser set in the operating system. So you will have to figure out how to set the default browser in Ubuntu. Check if this FAQ is of use.

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I did get it working, see below.

BOINC Manager follows the default browser set in the operating system. So you will have to figure out how to set the default browser in Ubuntu. Check if this FAQ is of use.

That FAQ is correct, the problem seems to be wxLaunchDefaultBrowser has been patched to handle "default-browser" or so I have been reading here. Boinc uses wxWidgets.

After reading the above (which didnt apply since firefox was never launched) I then read where /usr/share/mime-info/gnome-vfs.keys had to be edited and Epiphany replaced with the desired browser. IANE on linux. Unfortunately, that didnt apply since I was not in an email and clicking on a url. I then restored default-application-id to Epiphany, installed Epiphany and selected Epiphany as the default browser. That works, and if I click on any project link buttons in boincmgr it brings up Epiphany and I get to the web site. I just cant get firefox launched the same way.

I am going to post the above stuff over at the Dotsch/UX forum since he is supplying boinc and ubuntu but has firefox as the default. Maybe someone over there can figure out how to get firefox to show up instead of Epiphany. The first thing I tried after installing Dotsch/UX were those project url links and they failed.

The gnome mime defination file list about 6 browser but none are firefox. That needs to be fixed one would think.