Description: trying to open help on Mac OSX 10.14 with Safai as default browser fails because the sandboxing blocks Safari from accessing the temporary/intermediate html file created in the user-profile (and even if the intermediate file is put into NSTemporaryDirectory where Safari could open it from, it would still fail to open the index.html from within the LibreOffice.app directory) Manually copying the path works (explicit user interaction) - but even if the intermediate file would contain a link for the user to click on pointing to the file in the LibreOffice.app folder access is blocked. Copying the link target and pasting into address bar again would work but is non-intuitive/user-unfriendly. So suggested workaround for now is to force online (web) help when running on Mac OSX 10.14 and Safari is used as default browser Steps to Reproduce: 1. install LibreOffice on mac 10.14 with Safari as default 2. try to open Help Actual Results: Safari opens, but only shows an error page (kCFErrorDomainCFNetwork error) Expected Results: should open the index.html from LibreOffice.app Reproducible: Always User Profile Reset: No Additional Info: the blocking is logged in Console.app sandboxd → blocks Webkit/Safari with com.apple.app-sandbox.read violation
Reproduced in Version: 6.2.4.2 Build ID: 2412653d852ce75f65fbfa83fb7e7b669a126d64 CPU threads: 8; OS: Mac OS X 10.14.2; UI render: GL; VCL: osx; Locale: en-US (en_ES.UTF-8); UI-Language: en-US Calc: threaded
Christian Lohmaier committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": https://git.libreoffice.org/core/+/44893662d510c4173e55ba27af02d0258a697a5d%5E%21 tdf#125578 force webhelp as workaround for Safari sandboxing w/ macOS 10.14 It will be available in 6.3.0. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
Christian Lohmaier committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "libreoffice-6-2": https://git.libreoffice.org/core/+/349b02b7f21ffda1e3e9c92939fc4d77029d0086%5E%21 tdf#125578 force webhelp as workaround for Safari sandboxing w/ macOS 10.14 It will be available in 6.2.5. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at https://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.
*** Bug 157270 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***