Browser-laptop: URL not opening from external application in Fedora 25

[pvital]

When clicking in a link URL from external application in Fedora 25, like Thunderbird or Slack, Brave is not able to: 1) opening a new tab (as configured to handle new links); and 2) load the URL link.

Instead of open the desired link in a new tab, Brave only came up to screen and nothing happens. Brave is the default browser in this system.

Brave: 0.16.9
rev: fba98fcb091b3abfa18aba7c6c0db0c7aa343589
Muon: 4.0.2
libchromiumcontent: 59.0.3071.86
V8: 5.9.211.31
Node.js: 7.9.0
Update Channel: dev
os.platform: linux
os.release: 4.11.5-200.fc25.x86_64
os.arch: x64

• Steps to reproduce:

  1. Click in any link from external app, like Thunderbird or Slack;

• Actual result:
  Brave came up to screen and nothing happens.

• Expected result:
  Brave came up to screen and load the URL link clicked from external app in a new tab.

• Will the steps above reproduce in a fresh profile? If not what other info can be added?
  Yes

• Is this an issue in the currently released version?
  Yes

• Can this issue be consistently reproduced?
  Yes. It happens every time I click in URL link from an external app.

[brianpatrickreavey]

Same issue here:

• fedora 25
• brave 0.16.13 installed from dnf

Also will not open from CLI if brave is already running (same behavior as from another application).

If Brave is not yet running, CLI launches previous tabs (per config) and a new window with the URL specified on the CLI.

[DivineOmega]

I've discovered this appears to be a problem with the brave.desktop file that ships with Brave.

You can fix this with the following steps.

1. sudo nano /usr/share/applications/brave.desktop
2. Change the line Exec=brave %U to Exec=brave -- %U
3. Save & exit nano (CTRL + O, CTRL + X).

I'm using Ubuntu 16.04, so your path to brave.desktop may differ. Use locate brave.desktop to find it if necessary.

[brianpatrickreavey]

Worked for me as well. Thanks!

[pvital]

Works for me also. Will check the source code and submit a PR if not implemented yet.

[cndouglas]

PR #9890 will fix this.

[bsclifton]

Closing this issue as a duplicate of https://github.com/brave/browser-laptop/issues/9193

Please note: this should be fixed with https://github.com/brave/browser-laptop/pull/10215

Some folks are reporting that even with this fix though, there are still issues (see work-around using xdg-settings