reverted back to old browser start functionality + startup notification rant

[Jeff Spaleta]

On 6/21/05, Matthew Lenz <matthew at nocturnal.org> wrote:
> What gives? I would assume they all execute
> the same script right?  
Not...exactly. The menu item calls the htmlview shell script which in
turn pulls the name of the executable to run from gconf. Reading over
the htmlview script as called from the launcher all it ends up doing
is calling firefox with no arguments.

When called with no arguments firefox is itself choosing to open a new
blank window.
and the hourglass timeout happens.

When htmlview called with a real url as an argument even from a
launcher  the firefox follows the tabbing preferences are followed...
and no hourglass timeout is seen.

whatever is happening is something internal to the /usr/bin/firefox
script which differentiates
between the case with an argument and without an argument and which is
confusing the startup notification process.

-jef