1138618 - Firefox 36, when used under Linux with XFCE, no longer opens correct URL that is double clicked in the KeePass application.

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

Description

[jzigpublic]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:35.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/35.0
Build ID: 20150122214805

Steps to reproduce:

Install the latest LTS Xubuntu:
http://xubuntu.org/getxubuntu/
check for and apply all updates - to get Firefox 36.
Install Keepass2 from the Ubuntu Software Center.
Create a new database in Keepass2.
Double click on one of the sample URLs in the new database.



Actual results:

Firefox will open a new window with its home page, not the clicked on URL.


Expected results:

A new tab should have opened displaying the clicked on URL.

I'm running Linux Mint XFCE Maya (13).  After the Firefox 36 update, opening a URL in the right-hand pane, by double clicking it, no longer works (it worked fine FF35 and below).  Instead of opening the URL in a new tab of Firefox, it opens an entire new Firefox window with it's home page open, not the URL that was clicked on.

It works fine on Windows with FF36.  It works fine in Ubuntu with FF36.  It does not work in Xubuntu (XFCE based) with FF36.  It does work properly in all the above Systems if Chromium is installed as the default browser or an older version of FF, just not with the new Firefox 36.

I've tried KeepassX, Keepass 1.26, Keepass 1.28 and Keepass 2.28, all respond the same way.

To recap, it only seems to fail when Firefox 36 is used together with Linux and the XFCE desktop manager.  It works fine with Chromium and XFCE.

Comment 1

[jzigpublic]

This problem was caused by Firefox dropping support for the -remote command line argument and the current XFCE was still using it.  XFCE has fixed it and it's on it's way to the repositories.
See:
https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11601