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MonoDevelop error launching web browser
When you have this error:
Error launching web browser
GLib.GException: There was an error launching the default action command associated with this location. at Gnome.Url.Show (System.String url) [0x00000] in :0 at MonoDevelop.Platform.GnomePlatform.ShowUrl (System.String url) [0x00000] in /build/src/monodevelop-2.8.5/src/addins/GnomePlatform/GnomePlatform.cs:134 at MonoDevelop.Ide.DesktopService.ShowUrl (System.String url) [0x00000] in /build/src/monodevelop-2.8.5/src/core/MonoDevelop.Ide/MonoDevelop.Ide/DesktopService.cs:84 at MonoDevelop.AspNet.Gui.BrowserLauncher.LaunchDefaultBrowser (System.String url) [0x00000] in /build/src/monodevelop-2.8.5/src/addins/AspNet/MonoDevelop.AspNet/MonoDevelop.AspNet.Gui/BrowserLauncher.cs:42
this command can help:
gconftool-2 --set --type=string /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http/command '/usr/bin/firefox %s'
path to browser may need to be changed.
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