BIG QUESTION to the experts: Is there any way to take *.desktop launching away from this broken code and replace it with a script that works?
Alex, I found Gnome runs out and connects to every launched URL before passing it to the browser. I discovered this trying to hack around this problem. I bet that's related to what you see with 404s because it ends up handling 404s very clumsily.
BIG QUESTION to the experts: Is there any way to take *.desktop launching away from this broken code and replace it with a script that works?
Alex, I found Gnome runs out and connects to every launched URL before passing it to the browser. I discovered this trying to hack around this problem. I bet that's related to what you see with 404s because it ends up handling 404s very clumsily.