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

[Benedikt Meurer]

Ambrose Li wrote:
>>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.
> 
> I'm thinking more in the line of using -remote first, and if we get
> "command not parseable" then we use the new syntax. Would that work?

Hm, might work (in theory), not sure.

> Or would "firefox --version" work on older versions of firefox?

firefox --version works.

Right now, it's a simple Exec line in a .desktop file. But if firefox is
going to introduce further breakage, we might need to add a helper
script for firefox.

Benedikt