Comment 2 for bug 1787758

It works for you? Now I'm getting confused.

When I click on a link in a plain mail it looks as it should work, and it it says it sent the URL to Mozilla Firefox. But the page never shows up in my browser.

Bringing up the *Messages* buffer, I see it actually printed those messages, even if I only noticed the last one.

    Sending URL to Mozilla Firebird...
    vm-run-command: "firefox" ("-remote" "openURL(https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1787758)")
    Sending URL to Mozilla Firefox... done

(I noticed the incorrect name in the first message has been fixed in later versions of VM.)

The problem only applies to plain mail messages. HTML messages formatted by w3m takes a different path, and works after a confirmation dialog.

Trying the command on the command line also has no effect.

    mimmi$ firefox -remote 'openURL(https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1787758)'
    mimmi$

No error message, but nothing shows up in firefox.

I'm also using Firefox 61.0.2, more precisely the Fedora packaging firefox-61.0.2-1.fc28.x86_64.

Am I doing something wrong?