BUG: clicking on Manjaro's news notification icon sets Firefox home page to manjaro.org

[jacopo]

Bug Description

Clicking on unread notifications on manjaro’s mtray to open and read the latest news
(as of today, [Stable Update] 2022-07-27 [Stable Update] 2022-07-29 - Kernels, Cinnamon, Haskell, Python, Virtualbox, Mesa) sets Firefox’s initial page for new windows to https://manjaro.org/.
I previusly had it set to Firefox startup page

• The change is immediate after firefox loads up, and does not happen until the interaction with matray
• closing and reopening firefox does not undo the change
• Clicking on already read notifications does not seem to change the startup page
• I’m not sure if it’s due to this, but possibly DRM reproduction gets unchecked. I have reviewed my settings and nothing else seems changed.

info

(HW not included because i think it’s unrelated)

System:
  Kernel: 5.15.57-2-MANJARO arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 12.1.0
    parameters: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-5.15-x86_64
    root=UUID=0f0c8def-9989-4f0c-b2ac-fb7e60486f4d rw quiet apparmor=1
    security=apparmor udev.log_priority=3
  Desktop: KDE Plasma v: 5.24.6 tk: Qt v: 5.15.5 wm: kwin_x11 vt: 1 dm: SDDM
    Distro: Manjaro Linux base: Arch Linux

Firefox v103.0 (64 bit) 
Mozilla Firefox for Manjaro Linux 
Manjaro - 1.0

Both Sysyem language and firefox are set to Italian.

Hope i’m reporting this correctly.

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Edit: today there was a new update, and having manjaro-browser-settings uninstalled when clicking on matray’s notification Firefox’s default page did NOT change. So the fix works.

[Mirdarthos]

Hi @jacopo,

While I don’t know mtray, I recommend matray for notifications. I use it, and it doesn’t have this problem. And it’s in the community repository:

$ pamac search matray
matray                                                                                                                                                                                                                       [Installed] 1.1.2-1  community
A Manjaro Linux announcements notification app

So can be install using:

pamac install matray

Hope this helps!

[Aragorn]

Try removing the manjaro-browser-settings package. That’s the one that resets your browser’s home page to manjaro.org.

pacman -R manjaro-browser-settings

[Jim.B]

@Aragorn

pacman -R manjaro-browser-settings

Its very close to malware when it overrides a users setting.

[Aragorn]

It’s not malware if it behaves as intended and as desired by certain members, although I will concede that for just as many other people, it’s a nuisance.

I don’t think I had to manually uninstall the package on my own system here — it’s been three years since I installed this machine, so I don’t really remember —but I believe the package is installed by default now, and that is not what I myself would have agreed to. Alas, I am not a developer.

The problem is either way easily remedied.

[jacopo]

that’s the one i meant, i mispelled it.
I actually like matray and probably the problem was manjaro-browser-settings as suggested by @Aragorn . I will reopen the discussion if it happens again after uninstalling it, but looking more into it it’s probably that.
I personally did not even knew i had the browser settings package installed and by looking at what it does it’s almost certainly some sort of integration bug between matray and browser-settings.