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Bug 1197611 - xdg-open doesn't work after upgrade to Firefox 36.0
Summary: xdg-open doesn't work after upgrade to Firefox 36.0
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Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE of bug 1197313
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: exo
Version: 21
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Kevin Fenzi
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2015-03-02 08:25 UTC by Samo Dadela
Modified: 2015-03-12 12:23 UTC (History)
8 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2015-03-04 12:36:48 UTC
Type: Bug
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Description Samo Dadela 2015-03-02 08:25:18 UTC 
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:
Comment 1 Thomas Moschny 2015-03-02 12:16:14 UTC 
Same here, on F20.

firefox --new-window works, however.
Comment 2 Martin Stransky 2015-03-02 12:49:30 UTC 
The --remote argument has been removed from Firefox.
Comment 3 Martin Stransky 2015-03-02 12:51:38 UTC 
See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1080319 for details.
Comment 4 Rex Dieter 2015-03-02 13:59:40 UTC 
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
Comment 5 Samo Dadela 2015-03-02 14:04:19 UTC 
$ 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)
Comment 6 redhat 2015-03-02 14:06:29 UTC 
$ 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)
Comment 7 Rex Dieter 2015-03-03 23:01:27 UTC 
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 ?
Comment 8 Rex Dieter 2015-03-04 02:23:11 UTC 
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 ***
Comment 9 Thomas Moschny 2015-03-04 08:45:25 UTC 
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.
Comment 10 Thomas Moschny 2015-03-04 08:51:08 UTC 
... and so, most likely a duplicate of 1197313.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1197313 ***
Comment 11 Rex Dieter 2015-03-04 12:23:04 UTC 
No, your issue is still exo-open in this case, no idea why it's trying to use the --remove option
Comment 12 Rex Dieter 2015-03-04 12:23:18 UTC 
--remote even :)
Comment 13 Rex Dieter 2015-03-04 12:36:48 UTC 
reduping 1197313 , I misread that as the original xdg-utils bug 1195718 , sorry

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1197313 ***
Comment 14 Martin Stransky 2015-03-05 13:14:10 UTC 
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)
Comment 15 Samo Dadela 2015-03-12 12:22:02 UTC 
So the 'fix' is to wait for firefox to revert back?
Comment 16 Kevin Fenzi 2015-03-12 12:23:54 UTC 
(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 ?
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