New submission from Stephan Sokolow: As of Firefox 36 (currently in beta channel), the -remote option has been removed.
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/36.0a2/auroranotes/ https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/36.0beta/releasenotes/ As such, attempting to open http://www.example.com/ using webbrowser.open() or webbrowser.open_new_tab() results in "File not Found" tabs pointing to these two URLs, respectively: file:///home/ssokolow/openURL%28http://www.example.com/%29 file:///home/ssokolow/openURL%28http://www.example.com/,new-tab%29 As I happen to have the Dead Snakes PPA set up on Lubuntu 14.04 for use with tox, I was able to confirm this as an issue in Python 2.7, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, and 3.4. ---------- components: Library (Lib) messages: 234218 nosy: ssokolow priority: normal severity: normal status: open title: webbrowser module broken with Firefox 36+ type: behavior versions: Python 2.7, Python 3.2, Python 3.3, Python 3.4 _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue23262> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com