preview in browser not working

[megg]

I have a fresh install of Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS and Libreoffice 6.2.2.2 (the latest in the repository). When I try to do File->Preview in Web Browser, nothing at all happens in Calc or Writer.

I have firefox and qutebrower and falkon installed and my $BROWSER environmental variable is set to qutebrower (I tried setting it to firefox and still nothing worked).

I have tried “$sudo update-alternatives --config x-www-browser”, selecting firefox, qutebrowser, and falkon. None of this worked either.

I only ever use calc for simple spreadsheets, so I don’t really have any experience with it in terms of its settings. I poked around in Tools->Options->Load/Save->HTML Compatability, but nothing there seemed to help.

[anon73440385]

Which repository are you using? Asking because no repository known to me still has 6.2.2.2 as latest. Ubuntu 18.04 still installs 6.0.7 by default, if you don’t define a PPA and PPA for 6.2 installs 6.2.8 and PPA for 6.3 install 6.3.3.2 (or may be 6.3.4.2 in the meantime) - or are you some snap release?

What is your default web application when calling gnome-control-center default-apps ? (I’m not aware of an environment variable BROWSER having any effect on which web application is being called by using Preview in Web Browser).

On my test system using

• sudo add-apt-repository ppa:libreoffice/libreoffice-6-2 (add 6.2 PPA launchpad repository)
• sudo apt install libreoffice (installs 6.2.8.2 - as per time of writing this comment)
• Firefox defined in gnome-control-center default-apps

makes File -> Preview in Web Browser working