From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: =?utf-8?Q?=C3=93scar_Fuentes?= Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: browse-url updates? Date: Sat, 07 Mar 2015 20:48:27 +0100 Message-ID: <87twxw7fn8.fsf@wanadoo.es> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1425757745 21429 80.91.229.3 (7 Mar 2015 19:49:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 7 Mar 2015 19:49:05 +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 20:48:56 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 1YUKiV-0003dW-FF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 07 Mar 2015 20:48:55 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36186 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YUKiU-0000bu-Ph for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 07 Mar 2015 14:48:54 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45490) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YUKiJ-0000be-Q2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Mar 2015 14:48:44 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YUKiE-0000Cu-QR for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Mar 2015 14:48:43 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:33839) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YUKiE-0000Co-Jb for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Mar 2015 14:48:38 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YUKiD-0003Jf-BA for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 07 Mar 2015 20:48:37 +0100 Original-Received: from 129.red-88-10-128.dynamicip.rima-tde.net ([88.10.128.129]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 07 Mar 2015 20:48:37 +0100 Original-Received: from ofv by 129.red-88-10-128.dynamicip.rima-tde.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sat, 07 Mar 2015 20:48:37 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 34 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 129.red-88-10-128.dynamicip.rima-tde.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:CnrFzWsaZIGWsgRufJ6HjdlJL9w= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:103056 Archived-At: 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.