Not opening browser when clicking "Goto-page"

Hi,

You know these blue boxes where you can click on "Goto Page" to open a browser (most of the time external) and directly goto the mentioned page.

From version 1.21.6 I cannot get SecondLife to open-up an external browser. I've set the BROWSER-environment variable to /usr/bin/firefox (openSuse 11.0), but still it doesn't show-up.

Anybody has any ideas?

Thanks,
Marcoh

I am having the same problem. i think it's to do with OpenSuse 11 rather than SL, since versions of the viewer that certainly did open pages for me before I updated from 10.3 won't open them now I'm on 11, but, whatever the cause, I would be very grateful indeed if anyone has any suggestions about fixing it.

this happened to me after I installed and purged opera.. I was able to work around it..

edit the launch_url.sh file in your favorite text editor (in your secondlife directory, wherever it is)

look for the following section and comment it out as I have here. DON'T comment out whatever browser you like to use - firefox works fine for me, so I leave it uncommented.
I know, it's just a workaround, but I hope it helps..

# if $BROWSER is defined, use it.
#XBROWSER=`echo "$BROWSER" |cut -f1 -d:`
#if [ ! -z "$XBROWSER" ]; then
# XBROWSER_CMD=`echo "$XBROWSER" |cut -f1 -d' '`
# # look for $XBROWSER_CMD either literally or in PATH
# if [ -x "$XBROWSER_CMD" ] || which $XBROWSER_CMD >/dev/null; then
# # check for %s string, avoiding bash2-ism of [[ ]]#
# if echo "$XBROWSER" | grep %s >/dev/null; then
# # $XBROWSER has %s which needs substituting
# echo "$URL" | xargs -r -i%s $XBROWSER &
# exit
# fi
# $XBROWSER has no %s, tack URL on the end instead
# $XBROWSER "$URL" &
# exit
# fi
# echo "$0: Couldn't find the browser specified by \$BROWSER ($BROWSER)"
# echo "$0: Trying some others..."
#fi

# else kfmclient
# (embodies KDE concept of 'preferred browser')
#if which kfmclient >/dev/null; then
# kfmclient openURL "$URL" &
# exit
#fi

# else x-www-browser
# (Debianesque idea of a working X browser)
#if which x-www-browser >/dev/null; then
# x-www-browser "$URL" &
# exit
#fi

# else opera
# (if user has opera in their path, they probably went to the
# trouble of installing it -> prefer it)
#if which opera >/dev/null; then
# opera "$URL" &
# exit
#fi

# else firefox
if which firefox >/dev/null; then
firefox "$URL" &
exit
fi



(edited: apparently I missed a couple of commented lines in the orriginal posting here - all should be commented as shown below.)

Thanks,

This is a usable workaround! I've edited the launch_browser.sh and it works.

Regards,
Marcoh

Not working for me, I am afraid. Sorry to be so hopeless, but all I really know about Linux is that it runs so much faster and better on my pc than Windows XP ever did... exactly where, and how, do I set the BROWSER-environment variable, assuming Firefox is installed in its default location?

That's getting into a plethora of possible answers.
Although I'm not sure it's the problem on your pc, I believe the most universal answer would be to edit or create a ~/.profile file (a simple text file in your home directory called .profile << must have the period at the front of the name.)
add a line with the following:

export BROWSER=/usr/bin/firefox

(if you're not sure where your firefox resides, you can type 'which firefox' at a command prompt in most distributions of linux.)

log out and log back into your pc. it shouldn't be necessary to reboot.


Hope it helps.

Thanks for the help and sorry for the delayed reply.

I've done as Timos suggested, but with no success. And, yes, 'which firefox' does indeed return /usr/bin/firefox . And, indeed, typing firefox http://secondlife.com/ at the command prompt in my SL folder causes firefox to open that the SL website. So, indeed, does entering $BROWSER http://secondlife.com/.

But URLs refuse to open in-world for me, either in firefox or the viewer's internal browser.

Me mystified.

I'm afraid I'm out of tricks for you to try with this.. sorry for the delayed response =/