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Author	ssokolow
Recipients	ssokolow
Date	2015-01-18.04:16:55
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Message-id	<1421554616.48.0.911036047072.issue23262@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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As of Firefox 36 (currently in beta channel), the -remote option has been removed. https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/36.0a2/auroranotes/ https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/36.0beta/releasenotes/ As such, attempting to open http://www.example.com/ using webbrowser.open() or webbrowser.open_new_tab() results in "File not Found" tabs pointing to these two URLs, respectively: file:///home/ssokolow/openURL%28http://www.example.com/%29 file:///home/ssokolow/openURL%28http://www.example.com/,new-tab%29 As I happen to have the Dead Snakes PPA set up on Lubuntu 14.04 for use with tox, I was able to confirm this as an issue in Python 2.7, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, and 3.4.

As of Firefox 36 (currently in beta channel), the -remote option has been removed.

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/36.0a2/auroranotes/
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/36.0beta/releasenotes/

As such, attempting to open http://www.example.com/ using webbrowser.open() or webbrowser.open_new_tab() results in "File not Found" tabs pointing to these two URLs, respectively:

file:///home/ssokolow/openURL%28http://www.example.com/%29
file:///home/ssokolow/openURL%28http://www.example.com/,new-tab%29

As I happen to have the Dead Snakes PPA set up on Lubuntu 14.04 for use with tox, I was able to confirm this as an issue in Python 2.7, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, and 3.4.

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