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["Axel G. Rossberg" <1333237@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

In 14.04, the webbrowser-app keeps stubbornly getting into the way of my
work.  Unity Google calendar integration? "Browser" pops up! Click on a
link embedded in a PDF file in Okular? "Browser" pops up.  All this,
despite my default web browser being set to Firefox.  Just double
checking: "/etc/alternatives/x-www-browser" links to "/usr/bin/firefox"
.

The list of nice features that Browser does not have which Firefox has
is simply too long to put it here. So, please give us a choice whether
we want to use Browser or not.  Microsoft, by the way, got into big
legal trouble with the EU because they tried to force their own browser
upon their users, and had to pull back. Ubuntu should be bigger than
this!

** Affects: webbrowser-app (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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Title:
  webbrowser-app overrides default web-browser choice

Status in “webbrowser-app” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  In 14.04, the webbrowser-app keeps stubbornly getting into the way of
  my work.  Unity Google calendar integration? "Browser" pops up! Click
  on a link embedded in a PDF file in Okular? "Browser" pops up.  All
  this, despite my default web browser being set to Firefox.  Just
  double checking: "/etc/alternatives/x-www-browser" links to
  "/usr/bin/firefox" .

  The list of nice features that Browser does not have which Firefox has
  is simply too long to put it here. So, please give us a choice whether
  we want to use Browser or not.  Microsoft, by the way, got into big
  legal trouble with the EU because they tried to force their own
  browser upon their users, and had to pull back. Ubuntu should be
  bigger than this!

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