Bug 388993

Summary: Kate or one of its plugins opens a 'helloworld test' in firefox at desktop startup
Product: [Applications] kate Reporter: T R T <trialism>
Component: applicationAssignee: KWrite Developers <kwrite-bugs-null>
Status: RESOLVED NOT A BUG    
Severity: normal CC: christoph, kare.sars
Priority: NOR    
Version First Reported In: 17.12.0   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: Manjaro   
OS: Linux   
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Description T R T 2018-01-15 07:40:39 UTC
When I logged in, firefox started with this link: https://cgit.kde.org/?p=kate.git&a=tree&f=addons%2Fkate%2Fhelloworld
I've never used kate and only started it once out of curiosity a few months ago. So, I never installed any plugin either.
Comment 1 Kåre Särs 2018-01-15 08:04:10 UTC
Hi,

I really wonder how you got that link opened since a search in the source code for "kate.git" only showed a match in README.md and AUTHORS. I also searched for helloworld and got zero matches (the plugin has been removed). 

There has to be some distro specific thing or something left behind from previous browsing...
Comment 2 T R T 2018-01-15 08:10:00 UTC
I don't use that browser profile at all(in the home directory: .mozilla). I always use sandboxed(firejail) firefox instances which look very different and are in another subdirectory.
Comment 4 Christoph Cullmann 2018-08-16 09:01:31 UTC
I am not aware of any way we can cause that ;=)
We don't install any "autostart" like stuff nor some stuff that opens web links.
If that happens for you with a fresh install, please report it to your distribution.