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F1 locks the editor completely


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Steps to reproduce

  1. Make sure no instance of firefox is open
  2. Press F1 (or select 'help contents' from the help menu )
  3. Read help files
  4. Return to editor that is now completely unresponsive
  5. close firefox
  6. editor is now again

Note: my default browser is chrome, if I start firefox before pressing F1 this error never happens. This is because the call "firefox <url>" hands off the url by the master firefox thread and exits gracefully, but if firefox wasn't running the call creates a master firefox thread.

 

Easy solution is to ask the system to background the task "firefox <url> &", even better solution would be to use the users default browser ;)

System:

Linux Mint 17 ( = Ubuntu 14.04 with cinnamon desktop ) Ubuntu 14.04, AMD HD 6850, i5 2500k

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