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

[Benedikt Meurer]

Benedikt Meurer 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.

Ok, should work properly now.

> Benedikt

Benedikt