Firefox/Gnome bug with System->Preferences->Preferred Applications

[Hein-Pieter van Braam]

I think FX should do that automagically, but, I can also remember some
wrapper script... 

I just checked on my own dapper install, and it doesn't happen her... at
least not with xchat-gnome and from a link in a gnome-terminal...

On Mon, 2006-04-03 at 17:35 -0400, Lee Revell wrote:
> When I set "Web Browser" to Firefox and select "Open in New Tab" (exact
> command is 'firefox -remote "openurl(%s,new-tab)"'), clicking links in
> other applications does not work at all unless I first open Firefox
> manually.
> 
> IIRC it used to behave correctly - if Firefox was not already open, it
> would be launched, otherwise the link opens in a new tab.  This broke
> somewhere between Breezy and Dapper.
> 
> Is this a known bug?  Is any workaround available?
> 
> It would be very bad IMHO for Dapper to ship with this bug.
> 
> Lee
> 
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