Since a couple of updates, xdg-open doesn’t seem to work properly anymore. Or people could argue it works (too well?). Let me explain, before when I was clicking a hyperlink from an application, it would always open it in the web browser, but since a couple of updates at least, it now open the link in other programs depending on what it detects the target of the link to be. Quick example:
xdg-open https://imgur.com/7t27GZu will open the web browser
xdg-open https://i.imgur.com/7t27GZu.jpg will open the image in Gwenview
I’m pretty confident this was not the behavior let say a month ago (or maybe a little more, I noticed it recently).
Can people confirm that it is not normal behavior and that it also does the same on their side?
I had other weird behavior like links trying to open in Kate, the same as it tries to open links in Gwenview, depending on what xdg-open thinks is appropriate (can’t find the links that produced that anymore, this was when I tried to troubleshoot it when It occurred for the first time at least a month ago, didn’t even have made the connection with xdg-open back then).
