[4.10, Xubuntu] Preferred applications: Firefox 36 issue

[Chris Green]

On Sun, Mar 01, 2015 at 02:13:41PM +0100, killermoehre wrote:
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> Am 1. März 2015 13:24:35 MEZ, schrieb Lars Behrens <lars.behrens at kit.edu>:
> >Hi list,
> >
> >can someone confirm that Firefox 36.0 does not follow external links
> >(links from other applications like e.g. Thunderbird) as long as the
> >browser is set to "Firefox"?
> >
> >Changing to "Debian Sensible Browser" instead of "Firefox" makes it
> >work
> >again. That does not happen with other browsers here (Xubuntu 14.04.2).
> >
> >Cheerz,
> >Lars
> 
> Hi Lars,
> 
> due to a drop of the deprecated -remote switch in Firefox, the command 
> defined in exo can not work anymore. Please update your exo version to 
> at least 0.10.2 or bug your package maintainer for this. 
> 
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I don't think that addresses the issue.  I'm seeing a problem simply
trying to "Open Link" from a terminal window, right click on a link,
select "Open Link" and up pops a new firefox window which *doesn't*
load the specified URL.

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Chris Green