Right clicking on a url in xchat and clicking "open link in browser" does not work

[Dave Russell]

I'm currently running a fully updated Oneiric install. This used to work in 11.04, however since I first installed 11.10 after Alpha 3 this functionality does nothing.

Copying and pasting the link works, right clicking on a link and clicking "open link in browser" does nothing.

Currently running xchat 2.8.8-3ubuntu6

# lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu oneiric (development branch)
Release: 11.10

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: xchat 2.8.8-3ubuntu6
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-8.11-generic 3.0.1
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-8-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue Aug 16 22:11:30 2011
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Alpha amd64 (20110803.1)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: xchat
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[z3z (z3z)]

I experience this too on a 64 bit Oneiric setup (fully updated as of today).

When you mouse over the link, it shows an underline as expected, but right-clicking and selecting Open Link in Browser does nothing (my default browser is Firefox 7.0). There is no error or anything changing on the display. Basically nothing happens. Copying and pasting the link straight into the browser works for me too.

[Don Zavitz (dzavitz)]

i can confirm this bug...

billybigrigger@victor:~$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu oneiric (development branch)
Release: 11.10

billybigrigger@victor:~$ uname -a
Linux victor 3.0.0-9-generic #14-Ubuntu SMP Tue Aug 23 17:03:26 UTC 2011 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

billybigrigger@victor:~$ apt-cache policy xchat
xchat:
  Installed: 2.8.8-3ubuntu6
  Candidate: 2.8.8-3ubuntu6
  Version table:
 *** 2.8.8-3ubuntu6 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric/universe amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

[Dave Russell (drussell)]

This seems to be fixed to me as of the latest set of updates. Closing this, but if anyone's still having any problems feel free to re-open the bug.