What's the library that manage the links opening in GTK?

[salome]

Hi
I had this bug from a lot of time:

Can't open external links in gtk applications

Hi, I can’t open the links in the browser when there is a link in gtk applications. Step to treproduce: open a gtk3 or gtk2 application ( for example pamac, liferea and lxtask in my case) open a link (for example the source of a feed or the official site’s application or the lxde site in the help–about menu of lxtasks) in the external browser by clicking on it. it will be opened a new, blank browser instance instead the link The problem doesn’t occurs with qt applications (in my case , vlc …

I had this bug in the past years, and I resolved this downgrading a library, but I don’t remember what library was it

So, have you any idea about what library is related to the links opening from GTK applications?

[Fabby]

what’s the output to:

xdg-open linkname

[salome]

Hi,

[salome@salome ~]$ xdg-open https://forum.manjaro.org
[salome@salome ~]$ Illegal AddressMatcher: [xpconnect wrapped nsIPrefBranch] -- TypeError: s.split is not a function
Illegal AddressMatcher: [xpconnect wrapped nsIPrefBranch] -- TypeError: s.split is not a function

The link is opened correctly with my default browser

[salome]

RESOLVED:

How I resolved my issue:

• I opened xfce4-settings-manager, then xfce4-mime-settings
• I searched inode/symlink
• it was already setted on my default browser (palemoon), but I went on the open with/modify option an I selected palemoon again

Now it works as usual

Thank you & cheers everyone!