Bug when clicking on a http link with web browser closed

[Matthieu.Rioteau]

Hi everybody,

Just have a strange behavior in Pidgin (never noticed that before 2.6.3 release).

When I click a http link in discussion windows AND that the web browser (Firefox) is closed, a Windows error message box appears telling "Window cannot find '[the_link]'. Make sure you typed the name correctly, and then try again. To search a file, click the Start button, and then click Search.".

After clicking "OK" to close the message box, Firefox launchs and the link opens normally.

Below an extract of the log with the concerned lines :

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util: Writing file blist.xml to directory C:\WINNT\Profiles\yj5952\Application Data\.purple
(11:56:59) util: Writing file C:\WINNT\Profiles\yj5952\Application Data\.purple\blist.xml
(11:57:02) util: Writing file accounts.xml to directory C:\WINNT\Profiles\yj5952\Application Data\.purple
(11:57:02) util: Writing file C:\WINNT\Profiles\yj5952\Application Data\.purple\accounts.xml
(11:57:04) sametime: saving remote blist
(11:57:04) meanwhile: storage request saved: key = 0x0, result = 0x0, length = 780
(11:57:06) sound: Playing C:\Program Files\Pidgin\sounds\purple\receive.wav
(11:57:19) msn: S: NS 000: NOT 595
(11:57:23) winpidgin: Error opening URI: http://www.google.fr error: 2
(11:57:30) docklet: menu enter-notify-event
(11:57:30) docklet: menu enter-notify-event
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

My system is Windows XP Professional SP 3.

Hope it can help.

Kind regards,

Matthieu.
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[Daniel Atallah-2]

On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 07:14,  <Matthieu.Rioteau@...> wrote:

>
> Hi everybody,
>
> Just have a strange behavior in Pidgin (never noticed that before 2.6.3
> release).
>
> When I click a http link in discussion windows AND that the web browser
> (Firefox) is closed, a Windows error message box appears telling "Window
> cannot find '[the_link]'. Make sure you typed the name correctly, and then
> try again. To search a file, click the Start button, and then click
> Search.".
>
> After clicking "OK" to close the message box, Firefox launchs and the link
> opens normally.

This is a problem with the windows browser registration.

If you set your default browser to IE and then back to FF, that should fix it.

-D

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[Matthieu.Rioteau]

> On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 07:14,  <Matthieu.Rioteau@...> wrote:
> >
> > Hi everybody,
> >
> > Just have a strange behavior in Pidgin (never noticed that before 2.6.3
> > release).
> >
> > When I click a http link in discussion windows AND that the web browser
> > (Firefox) is closed, a Windows error message box appears telling "Window
> > cannot find '[the_link]'. Make sure you typed the name correctly, and then
> > try again. To search a file, click the Start button, and then click
> > Search.".
> >
> > After clicking "OK" to close the message box, Firefox launchs and the link
> > opens normally.
>
>
> This is a problem with the windows browser registration.
>
> If you set your default browser to IE and then back to FF, that should fix it.
>
> -D

I just followed your advice but there is still this bug.

Actually the strange thing is that it happens with Firefox, but not with IE.
And it happens only with Pidgin, and not with other programs like Lotus Notes for example.

The bad couple seems thus to be Pidgin/Firefox.

Very strange...

Matthieu
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[Daniel Atallah-2]

On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 10:34,  <Matthieu.Rioteau@...> wrote:

>
>> On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 07:14,  <Matthieu.Rioteau@...> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi everybody,
>> >
>> > Just have a strange behavior in Pidgin (never noticed that before 2.6.3
>> > release).
>> >
>> > When I click a http link in discussion windows AND that the web browser
>> > (Firefox) is closed, a Windows error message box appears telling "Window
>> > cannot find '[the_link]'. Make sure you typed the name correctly, and
>> > then
>> > try again. To search a file, click the Start button, and then click
>> > Search.".
>> >
>> > After clicking "OK" to close the message box, Firefox launchs and the
>> > link
>> > opens normally.
>>
>>
>> This is a problem with the windows browser registration.
>>
>> If you set your default browser to IE and then back to FF, that should fix
>> it.
>>
>> -D
>
> I just followed your advice but there is still this bug.
>
> Actually the strange thing is that it happens with Firefox, but not with IE.
> And it happens only with Pidgin, and not with other programs like Lotus
> Notes for example.
>
> The bad couple seems thus to be Pidgin/Firefox.
>

What is happening is that FF is either not telling Windows that it
successfully received the URL or a timeout has passed and Windows
hadn't yet received the request.

It is likely related to your FF configuration somehow (pidgin has no
idea which browser you're using, it just asks windows to open the URL
with the default handler) - you might try googling and/or reinstalling
FF(this isn't an uncommon problem).

The reason you may not see this with some other programs is that there
are several ways to launch URLs in Windows.  I suspect, however that
of you try to Start->Run->"http://www.pidgin.im" you'll see the same
behavior.

-D

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[Matthieu.Rioteau]

> On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 10:34,  <Matthieu.Rioteau@...> wrote:
> >
> >> On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 07:14,  <Matthieu.Rioteau@...> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > Hi everybody,
> >> >
> >> > Just have a strange behavior in Pidgin (never noticed that before 2.6.3
> >> > release).
> >> >
> >> > When I click a http link in discussion windows AND that the web browser
> >> > (Firefox) is closed, a Windows error message box appears telling "Window
> >> > cannot find '[the_link]'. Make sure you typed the name correctly, and
> >> > then
> >> > try again. To search a file, click the Start button, and then click
> >> > Search.".
> >> >
> >> > After clicking "OK" to close the message box, Firefox launchs and the
> >> > link
> >> > opens normally.
> >>
> >>
> >> This is a problem with the windows browser registration.
> >>
> >> If you set your default browser to IE and then back to FF, that should fix
> > >> it.
> >>
> >> -D
> >
> > I just followed your advice but there is still this bug.
> >
> > Actually the strange thing is that it happens with Firefox, but not with IE.
> > And it happens only with Pidgin, and not with other programs like Lotus
> > Notes for example.
> >
> > The bad couple seems thus to be Pidgin/Firefox.
> >
>
> What is happening is that FF is either not telling Windows that it
> successfully received the URL or a timeout has passed and Windows
> hadn't yet received the request.
>
> It is likely related to your FF configuration somehow (pidgin has no
> idea which browser you're using, it just asks windows to open the URL
> with the default handler) - you might try googling and/or reinstalling
> FF(this isn't an uncommon problem).
>
> The reason you may not see this with some other programs is that there
> are several ways to launch URLs in Windows.  I suspect, however that
> of you try to Start->Run->"http://www.pidgin.im" you'll see the same
> behavior.
>
> -D

Understood. ;-)
I'll try to fix that.
Thanks for help. And for Pidgin development. ;-)

See you,
Matthieu
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