Thank you for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. The issue you are reporting is an upstream one, I linked to the upstream bug, hopefully it will eventually make its way into Ubuntu.
** Changed in: gnome-terminal (Ubuntu) Status: New => Confirmed ** Changed in: gnome-terminal (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided => Low ** Bug watch added: GNOME Bug Tracker #640727 https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=640727 ** Also affects: gnome-terminal via https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=640727 Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to gnome-terminal in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/904745 Title: URL REGEX stops at a colon (":") Status in GNOME Terminal: Unknown Status in “gnome-terminal” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: This is apparent of a fault in especially MediaWiki file URLs and hinders the daily usability especially for irssi users. For example gnome-terminal fails to open https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Shakespeare.jpg ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10 Package: gnome-terminal 2.32.0-0ubuntu1.1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-31.62-generic 2.6.35.13 Uname: Linux 2.6.35-31-generic x86_64 NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia Architecture: amd64 Date: Thu Dec 15 15:20:24 2011 SourcePackage: gnome-terminal To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/gnome-terminal/+bug/904745/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp