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"xdg-open http://www.google.ca" in a command line opens my default browser(google-chrome) but does not load the URL.

If I change my default browser to Firefox the URL loads just fine.

Any ideas?

I'm running 14.04.

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Can't duplicate... What does google-chrome http://google.ca do? – Tim Jul 17 '14 at 19:30
    
I use chromium as default browser and it's working fine. – Radu Rădeanu Jul 17 '14 at 20:24
    
'google-chrome google.ca'; works no problem. However, i'm still unable to have links load properly from other applications that use xdg-open. @Tim – RjPiston Jul 18 '14 at 13:09
    
@RaduRădeanu If i set my default browser to chromium or firefox xdg-open works no problem. This problem is only with chrome. – RjPiston Jul 18 '14 at 13:31
    
If i delete the google-chrome.desktop file from ~/.local/share/applications it works fine. So weird. – RjPiston Jul 19 '14 at 3:11
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It's because the .desktop file that chrome installs in your home (in ~/.local/share/applications) is bad. Either add a %U to the end of the Exec= line, like so:

Exec=/opt/google/chrome/chrome %U

or remove it and let your system pick up the one chrome itself ships in /usr/share.

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edit the default one named google-chrome.desktop not the profiles like chrome-blahblahblah... – CrandellWS Mar 14 '17 at 21:34

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