cmd/cover: go tool cover -html invokes Fierfox regardless it not being the default browser

[cznic]

Linux Mint 15 64bit, default browser Chrome. I'm aware it might be a Mint bug, but I
failed to find any such.

[davecheney]

Comment 1:

Does linux mint have this command: sensible-browser ? If so, which browser is invoked
when you execute this command.
sensible-browser http://golang.org/

[cznic]

Comment 2:

It has that command. Executing it like below
$ sensible-browser 
Ve stávající relaci prohlížeče bylo vytvořeno nové okno.
$ 
results in a new window (not tab) is created in Chrome. The message is the .cz locale
version of ~ "A new window was created in the current browser session".

[minux]

Comment 3:

cmd/cover uses xdg-open file://xxx to open the browser, and it is supposed
to open the web page using the default browser.
i suspect it's a system configuration problem.

[davecheney]

Comment 4:

What does pprof use? Ideally they should be the same.

[adg]

Comment 5:

Agree, I think it must be a system config issue. Unless there is a better broadly-useful
way of opening a browser.

Status changed to WorkingAsIntended.

[minux]

Comment 6:

Re #4, in fact, pprof uses the following hardcoded list of browsers:
    "/etc/alternatives/gnome-www-browser",
    "/etc/alternatives/x-www-browser",
    "google-chrome",
    "firefox",
perhaps it should also use xdg-open on unix.