[Surfraw-devel] Bug#628683: surfraw does not work correctly with chromium

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On Tue, Jun 07, 2011 at 11:45:22PM +0100, Ian Beckwith wrote:
> severity 628683 normal
> tags 628683 + fixed-upstream
> thanks
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 06:07:57AM -0400, Michel wrote:
> > Running [1] with ~/.surfraw.conf with SURFRAW_graphical_browser=/usr/bin/chromium.
> > Opens a new tab in a current browsing session. But with the following in the
> > navigation bar: openurl%28http//www.imdb.com/find?s=all&q=test) And also get the
> > following message after it runs [2].
> 
> Evidently chromium doesn't support the "-remote openURL" syntax.
> 
> You can fix this by adding
> 
> SURFRAW_graphical_remote=no
> 
> to ~/.surfraw.conf (or ~/.config/surfraw/conf)
> 
> I've just committed a fix upstream to make SURFRAW_graphical_remote=no
> the default.
> 
> I've downgraded the severity as it only affects one browser (well,
> that I know of) and there is a workaround.
> 
> thanks,
> 
> Ian
> 
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Ian,

Great will use this workaround and yes I should had made it normal instead of
important.

Thank You,
Michel