Comment 2 for bug 215825

Thanks for the tip!

Actually, xdg-open doesn't seem to work on my system, running it manually produces this:

$ xdg-open 'http://launchpad.net' ; echo $?
Error showing url: There was an error launching the default action command associated with this location.
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The same error is printed to the pidgin debug log.

So, I guess it's not a pidgin bug, but rather xdg-utils's one.