browse-url updates?

browse-url updates?

[Dan Espen]

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?

-- 
Dan Espen

Re: browse-url updates?

[HASM]

Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> writes:

> Now I'm wondering why I haven't seen an updated browse-url
> package come through the normal Fedora update mechanisms.

File a bug report on Red Hat's bugzilla..

-- HASM

Re: browse-url updates?

[Óscar Fuentes]

Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> 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.

Re: browse-url updates?

[Dan Espen]

Óscar Fuentes <ofv@wanadoo.es> writes:

> Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> 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

Re: browse-url updates?

[Yuri Khan]

On Sun, Mar 8, 2015 at 1:48 AM, Óscar Fuentes <ofv@wanadoo.es> wrote:

> It is unfortunate that Emacs used a Firefox option documented as
> obsolete for so long, resulting on this mess.

Meanwhile, Firefox 36.0.1 seems to have backed out the removal of
-remote due to numerous complaints at breakage of a public API:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1080319

Re: browse-url updates?

[Alain Ketterlin]

Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> 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.

I've moved to browse-url-generic, and firefox seems to do the right
thing. This is what custom-set-variables has:

 '(browse-url-browser-function (quote browse-url-generic))
 '(browse-url-generic-program "firefox")

(I'm on linux too, I have no idea whether this works on other systems.)

It looks like firefox will revert to accept -remote again. But their
main difficulty is with "profiles", afaiu. If you use profiles, or have
specific firefox options, then you may also have to set
browse-url-generic-args.

-- Alain.