From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dan Espen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: browse-url updates? Date: Sat, 07 Mar 2015 15:44:47 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1425761121 6911 80.91.229.3 (7 Mar 2015 20:45:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2015 20:45:21 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 07 21:45:21 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YULb7-0000sp-0Y for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 07 Mar 2015 21:45:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36387 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YULb6-00078W-0Z for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 07 Mar 2015 15:45:20 -0500 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!feeder.erje.net!eu.feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 47 Injection-Info: mx02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="ad871ce417d1fb2ea3c87e49e48c0ae1"; logging-data="32218"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18j0rv/S6HRkkJfos5gUoboUjOBMMZZLTU=" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:a0xSexz4X1nz5xAyhleGYn+SSPo= Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:210778 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:103057 Archived-At: Óscar Fuentes writes: > Dan Espen writes: > >> My question is about how I get browse-url updates. >> >> I just installed Fedora 21, which gives me Firefox 36, >> and >> GNU Emacs 24.4.1 (x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.14.5). >> >> When I click on links in Emacs I get a new empty Firefox window. >> >> So, I did a search and found this: >> >> http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/BrowseUrl >> >> I copied the browse-url-firefox function and evaluated it >> and that fixed the problem. >> >> Now I'm wondering why I haven't seen an updated browse-url >> package come through the normal Fedora update mechanisms. >> >> Any ideas where the delay is? > > browse-url now is distributed with Emacs and I think that it is unlikely > that Fedora has an specific package for it. A few days ago the problem > you describe was fixed on Emacs, but you have to wait until a new Emacs > release is created (IIRC 24.5 is being tested, but I'm not sure if the > fix is in the release). > > Another option is to build your Emacs, and yet another option is to > override (or advice) browse-url-firefox with the fixed instance, as you > did on your experiments. > > It is unfortunate that Emacs used a Firefox option documented as > obsolete for so long, resulting on this mess. Okay, that's exactly what I was looking for. The fix was recent and hasn't made it from Emacs to Fedora yet. I can live with making a local mod as long as it won't be wiped out by normal updates. Thanks. -- Dan Espen