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

Benedikt Meurer benedikt.meurer at unix-ag.uni-siegen.de
Tue Apr 11 19:00:00 CEST 2006


Ambrose Li wrote:
>>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.
> 
> I searched the kb on mozillazine. It seems that for Firefox 1.5 it is now just
> 
> firefox -new-window www.xfce.org
> 
> (No -remote or openURL.) I tried it and it seems to work.

That doesn't work with older versions of Firefox (tries to spawn a new
instance, which displays the profile chooser if another instance is
already running), so we cannot use that.

Benedikt



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