Description of problem: After upgrading to firefox 36 I noticed that I could not open url's from pidgin. Firefox comes up, but the URL bar is empty. I then tried xdg-open http://url - same happends. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): firefox-36.0-1.fc21.x86_64 xdg-utils-1.1.0-0.38.rc3.fc21.noarch How reproducible: xdg-open http://url.com Steps to Reproduce: 1. xdg-open http://url.com 2. firefox windows comes up, but url bar is empty 3. Actual results: A blank firefox window opens. Expected results: A firefox window with the desired page should be opened. Additional info:
Same here, on F20. firefox --new-window works, however.
The --remote argument has been removed from Firefox.
See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1080319 for details.
xdg-utils has no code that injects command-line options, --remote in particular. all it does (essentially), is run the app referenced by: xdg-mime query default x-scheme-handler/http or xdg-settings get default-web-browser modulo some details depending on which desktop environment you use) Reporters, can you please post the output from the following 3 commands: xdg-mime query default x-scheme-handler/http xdg-settings get default-web-browser XDG_UTILS_DEBUG_LEVEL=2 xdg-open http://url.com
$ xdg-mime query default x-scheme-handler/http firefox.desktop midori.desktop $ xdg-settings get default-web-browser firefox.desktop $ XDG_UTILS_DEBUG_LEVEL=2 xdg-open http://google.com Selected DE xfce (blank firefox opens)
$ xdg-mime query default x-scheme-handler/http firefox.desktop $ xdg-settings get default-web-browser firefox.desktop $ XDG_UTILS_DEBUG_LEVEL=2 xdg-open http://url.com Selected DE xfce (firefox with google.com opens, but i literally used url.com)
I've confirmed xdg-open works for me with firefox-36 after setting firefox to be default browser. reporter, can you check to see if you may have a custom firefox.desktop under ~/.local/share/applications ?
Ah, I think I see the problem, I bet this is a dup of bug #1195718 , but looks like I failed to make an update for f20 too (per comment #1). *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1195718 ***
Updating to xdg-utils-1.1.0-0.39.rc3.fc20.noarch doesn't help, problem remains the same. Running xdg-open with strace shows that it calls exo-open, which in turn calls exo-helper-1, which in turn calls execve("/usr/bin/firefox", ["/usr/bin/firefox", "-remote","openURL(http://url.com)"], [/* 74 vars */]) Re-assign to exo.
... and so, most likely a duplicate of 1197313. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1197313 ***
No, your issue is still exo-open in this case, no idea why it's trying to use the --remove option
--remote even :)
reduping 1197313 , I misread that as the original xdg-utils bug 1195718 , sorry *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1197313 ***
Upstream decided to revert te change so the -remote options has been added back in firefox-36.0-3.fc23 (see https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1080319)
So the 'fix' is to wait for firefox to revert back?
(In reply to Samo Dadela from comment #15) > So the 'fix' is to wait for firefox to revert back? Or you could install the exo package from updates-testing as noted in bug 1197313 ?