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Bug 1197472 - firefox under xfce ignores url from external app via exo
Summary: firefox under xfce ignores url from external app via exo
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 1197313
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: exo
Version: 21
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
unspecified
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Kevin Fenzi
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Whiteboard:
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2015-03-01 14:22 UTC by Jeremy Harris
Modified: 2015-03-01 16:22 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2015-03-01 16:22:01 UTC
Type: Bug
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Description Jeremy Harris 2015-03-01 14:22:51 UTC 
Description of problem:
  URL-open from xchat fails to open in Firefox 36.0 because Firefox removed the
"-remote" option, apparently making that the default behaviour.  Unfortunately
they destroyed back-compatability by not just ignoring it; you now get a new
Firefox window with your configured start page.
  This will presumably trip any application using the exo helper route.
Workaround is to configure a custom browser in Preferred Applications, with
an exec-string "firefox %s"

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
  exo-0.10.2-8.fc21.x86_64
  firefox-36.0-1.fc21.x86_64
  xchat-2.8.8-26.fc21.x86_64

How reproducible:
  100%

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Start firefox
2. In xchat, ctrl-click a URL

Actual results:
  New firefox window, with configured start content (if any)

Expected results:
  Requested URL opened in new tab in existing firefox window

Additional info:
Comment 1 Jeremy Harris 2015-03-01 14:34:27 UTC 
Does not appear to affect operation under Gnome
Comment 2 Kevin Fenzi 2015-03-01 16:22:01 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1197313 ***
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