about:home always gets redirected to http://start.ubuntu.com/10.04/Google/

Bug #606728 reported by Alexander Sack
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This bug affects 3 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
ubufox (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
High
Alexander Sack
Lucid
Fix Released
Undecided
Alexander Sack
Maverick
Fix Released
High
Alexander Sack

Bug Description

Binary package hint: ubufox

type about:home in url bar, problem persists as below:

 1. you always get redirected to http://start.ubuntu.com/10.04/Google/ which is wrong. it should stay at about:home if the start.ubuntu page exists
 2. even when using Yahoo and later Baidu you get redirected to the Google page

Problem is that there is a double // in the generated url.

so if searchplugin is google you get:
http://start.ubuntu.com/10.04//Google/ which is redirected to http://start.ubuntu.com/10.04/Google/

if selected searchplugin is yahoo you get:
http://start.ubuntu.com/10.04//Yahoo/ which is redirected to http://start.ubuntu.com/10.04/Yahoo/

Revision history for this message
Alexander Sack (asac) wrote :

fixed in upstream branch:

bzr commit -m "* fix URL template used; this fixes the problem that Yahoo about:home cannot be reached;
  also we get rid of the redirect everyone is getting on about:home to the Google/ url
  - update components/aboutHome.js" --fixes lp:606728
Committing to: bzr+ssh://<email address hidden>/~asac/ubufox/main/
modified components/aboutHome.js
Committed revision 214.

Changed in ubufox (Ubuntu):
status: New → Triaged
importance: Undecided → Medium
importance: Medium → High
Changed in ubufox (Ubuntu Lucid):
status: New → Triaged
assignee: nobody → Alexander Sack (asac)
Changed in ubufox (Ubuntu Maverick):
assignee: nobody → Alexander Sack (asac)
papukaija (papukaija)
tags: added: lucid maverick
Revision history for this message
Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

please fix in maverick ASAP.

Changed in ubufox (Ubuntu Lucid):
status: Triaged → Fix Committed
tags: added: verification-needed
Revision history for this message
Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote : Please test proposed package

Accepted ubufox into lucid-proposed, the package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

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Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel) wrote :

SRU verification for Lucid:
I have reproduced the problem with ubufox 0.9~rc2-0ubuntu2 in lucid and have verified that the version of ubufox 0.9~rc2-0ubuntu2.1 in -proposed fixes the issue.

Marking as verification-done

tags: added: verification-done
removed: verification-needed
Revision history for this message
Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

Alex, please upload to maverick as well. I won't move this to -updates unless/until it's also fixed in the devel release, as per SRU policy.

Changed in ubufox (Ubuntu Maverick):
milestone: none → ubuntu-10.10-beta
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package ubufox - 0.9~rc2-0ubuntu4

---------------
ubufox (0.9~rc2-0ubuntu4) maverick; urgency=low

  [ Chris Coulson ]
  * Backport change to fix URL template used for about:home; this fixes the
    problem that Yahoo about:home cannot be reached; also we get rid of the
    redirect everyone is getting on about:home to the Google/ url (LP: #606728)
    - add debian/patches/02_fix_about_home.patch
    - add debian/patches/series
 -- Micah Gersten <email address hidden> Tue, 24 Aug 2010 21:26:36 -0500

Changed in ubufox (Ubuntu Maverick):
status: Triaged → Fix Released
Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package ubufox - 0.9~rc2-0ubuntu2.1

---------------
ubufox (0.9~rc2-0ubuntu2.1) lucid-proposed; urgency=low

  [ Philip Muskovac ]
  * Disable Report a Problem menu for stable release (LP: #557240)

  [ Chris Coulson ]
  * Backport change to fix URL template used for about:home; this fixes the
    problem that Yahoo about:home cannot be reached; also we get rid of the
    redirect everyone is getting on about:home to the Google/ url (LP: #606728)
    - update components/aboutHome.js
 -- Chris Coulson <email address hidden> Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:02:57 +0100

Changed in ubufox (Ubuntu Lucid):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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