Comment 14 for bug 1624022

Installed version 1.1.1-1ubuntu1.16.04.1 and tested with "browse <site>". Everything worked as expected.

Thanks all.

$ sudo apt-get install xdg-utils
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  linux-headers-4.4.0-51 linux-headers-4.4.0-51-generic
  linux-image-4.4.0-51-generic linux-image-extra-4.4.0-51-generic
  ubuntu-core-launcher
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be upgraded:
  xdg-utils
1 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 0 to remove and 189 not to upgrade.
Need to get 59.7 kB of archives.
After this operation, 2,048 B of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-proposed/main amd64 xdg-utils all 1.1.1-1ubuntu1.16.04.1 [59.7 kB]
Fetched 59.7 kB in 0s (975 kB/s)
(Reading database ... 340719 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../xdg-utils_1.1.1-1ubuntu1.16.04.1_all.deb ...
Unpacking xdg-utils (1.1.1-1ubuntu1.16.04.1) over (1.1.1-1ubuntu1) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.5-1) ...
Setting up xdg-utils (1.1.1-1ubuntu1.16.04.1) ...
will@malfunctioning-eddie:~$ browse http://www.google.co.uk
will@malfunctioning-eddie:~$ Created new window in existing browser session.