Closing firefox task, the gconf setting works fine with calling gnome- open directly, thus this is a bug in Python's webbrowser module.
** Changed in: firefox (Ubuntu) Status: Confirmed => Rejected -- [feisty] apport-gtk is opening a wrong URL https://launchpad.net/bugs/83974 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs