1522220 - xdg-open not working with seamonkey

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(SeaMonkey :: General, defect)

Description

[Wayne Smith]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/52.0 SeaMonkey/2.49.4

Steps to reproduce:

on the command line type:
xdg-open "https://www.stockwatch.com"

Actual results:

a new tab opened in seamonkey but the url was missing

Expected results:

the new tab should have been opened with www.stockwatch.com..
the following is a post I made on Linux Questions Org
I'm running Slackware 14.2
I was having problems getting xdg-open "https://www.dropbox.com" to work correctly with seamonkey. it worked ok with firefox but not with seamonkey.
after a lot of xdg-settings set default-web-browser commands and digging about.
I found a file ~/.local/share/applications/userapp-SeaMonkey-2YGTDY.desktop
that is incorrect. The line "Exec=/usr/bin/seamonkey %U" was missing the %U.
I added the %U and xdg-open now works with seamonkey.
I went back and took a look at my slackware 14.1 backup system and the ~/.local/share/applications/seamonkey.desktop file has a %U in it.
since I made the above post.
I went to seamonkey->Edit->preferences->set as default.
seamonkey created userapp-Seamonkey-BSI3VZ.desktop
This file has the correct "Exec=/usr/lib64/seamonkey-2.49.4/seamonkey %u" in it
so some how seamonkey fixed it self ? where the old .desktop files being recycled ?
Its like after I edited the desktop file seamonkey decided to make a new one.
there where 4 bad seamonkey desktop files when I started debugging my problem.
maybe seamonkey should ignore the existing seamonkey desktop files and make a new one all the time.
running seamonkey 2.49.4

Comment 1

[Daniel Konakanchi]

Attachment: same problem

Thanks from gartnorito1971.