xdg-open is broken on Ubuntu, and the suggested change would not improve it. The whole idea of having xdg-utils is to have a uniform utility that works the same on all distributions. Now xdg-open honors the BROWSER environment variable, but Ubuntu patches it to use run-mailcap instead, thus introducing two important differences between distributions. If a utility needs a browser and asks vanilla xdg-open it will get one. But on Ubuntu the patched xdg-open may give some random utility such as html2text. This means that Ubuntu breaks all such utilities.
-- xdg-open should use xdg-mime instead of run-mailcap when no DE detected https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/220765 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
