Comment 6 for bug 369038

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Robert Collins (lifeless) wrote : Re: [Bug 369038] Re: step 4 didn't launch a web page

On Thu, 2009-04-30 at 13:33 +0000, Rodney Dawes wrote:
> Curious. If you run gnome-default-applications-properties, what does it
> say your default browser is? xdg-open doesn't require firefox. It simply
> calls gnome-open under gnome, which then opens the appropriate url
> handler.

There are two potential issues here: why did my xdg-open fail, and what
should happen when it fails.

The reason for it failing is well understood - this bug is about
handling the failure ;)

-Rob