If Firefox is launched gksudo firefox in a terminal (superuser) Super Start has no problem with gvsfd-metadata in 12.04 or 14.04. There is apparently a privilege issue with this system call. This should be enough information to make considerable progress with this long standing bug. Unless the problem is INHERENT in the design. of course.
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