exo-open: URIs beginning with "www." not opened in the browser

[Benedikt Meurer]

Jannis Pohlmann wrote:
>>firefox -remote "openURL(www.xfce.org,new-window)"
> 
> Without a running Firefox instance:
> 
> $ firefox -remote "openURL(www.xfce.org,new-window)"
> Error: Failed to send command: 500 command not parseable
> $ firefox -remote "openURL(www.xfce.org)"
> Error: Failed to send command: 500 command not parseable
> $ firefox -remote "openURL(http://www.xfce.org)"
> Error: Failed to send command: 500 command not parseable
> $ firefox -remote "openURL(www.xfce.org,new-window)"
> Error: Failed to send command: 500 command not parseable

That's expected, and the helper will fallback to "firefox URL" then.

> With a running instance:
> 
> $ firefox -remote "openURL(http://www.xfce.org)"
> $ firefox -remote "openURL(www.xfce.org)"
> Error: Failed to send command: 500 command not parseable
> $ firefox -remote "openURL(http://www.xfce.org,new-window)"
> 
> This is strange and feels inconsistent, but FF 1.5 is crap anyway.

That's indeed strange. Can be worked around for exo_url_show(), tho.
Please file a bugreport.

> - Jannis

Benedikt