URLs won't open anymore in Firefox (Xfce)

haarp · Guru Joined: 31 Oct 2007 Posts: 535

Since the update to Firefox-36, links opened in other applications (or just by issuing exo-open http://foo.com (or xdg-open)) result in Firefox spawning a new window, but with the default page and not with the URL in question.

Firefox is still set as the "preferred" webbrowser. I suspect that this is the reason: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Command_Line_Options#-remote_remote_command

haarp · Guru Joined: 31 Oct 2007 Posts: 535

Found the cause: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1080319

There's relevant discussion in there. Seems this got reverted in 36.0.1.

Syl20 · l33t Joined: 04 Aug 2005 Posts: 619 Location: France

The workaround described in comment 39 works. May a "xfce-base/exo" package update be relevant ?

haarp · Guru Joined: 31 Oct 2007 Posts: 535

Syl20 · l33t Joined: 04 Aug 2005 Posts: 619 Location: France

haarp · Guru Joined: 31 Oct 2007 Posts: 535

Sweet! Yeah, a bump is probably in order. I imagine other users are equally puzzled by this bug.

xaviermiller · Posted: Fri Mar 06, 2015 7:21 pm Post subject:

Yeah, I got that problem too, but I thought it was due to my mail client (claws-mail).

Finally, I changed the settings in my mail client, and I will watch the next release of xfce (hoping it will be the brand new 4.12 :

)
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Randy Andy · Posted: Sat Mar 07, 2015 9:13 pm Post subject:

xaviermiller · Posted: Sat Mar 07, 2015 9:21 pm Post subject:

Randy Andy,

Watch bug 541962 then

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Randy Andy · Posted: Mon Mar 09, 2015 4:46 pm Post subject:

Hi Xavier,

on my yesterdays syncing, I've seen its coming into the tree.
So I start to compile it, tell the Box to fall in sleep afterwards, and went to bed by myself.

Today I found my box updated and running the new Xfce4 Version fine, as it should be, before reading your post now.
Nevertheless thanks for your hint and giving this additional reference info too.

Best regards, Andy.
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