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

[Benedikt Meurer]

Brian J. Tarricone wrote:
>>>>Firefox 1.5.0.1, which also behaves odd if I don't have any windows
>>>>opened:
>>>>
>>>>jannis at nebelsee:~$ exo-open --launch WebBrowser www.xfce.org
>>>>jannis at nebelsee:~$ Error: No running window found
>>>
>>>Hm, works with 1.0.7 here. The command used to run firefox is:
>>>
>>>firefox -remote "openURL(www.xfce.org,new-window)"
>>>
>>>(see exo-helper/helpers/firefox.desktop.in), which should work (atleast
>>>it worked for all previous versions of firefox/mozilla).
> 
> 
> IIRC that command won't work if firefox isn't already running.  I've
> seen the same problem Jannis has (no runnign window found) when trying
> to use exo-open if firefox isn't running.

That's why there's a fallback to "firefox URL", which will spawn a new
instance.

> 	-brian

Benedikt