Community-edition: clicking a web link does not do anything

Created on 5 Dec 2016 · 7Comments · Source: ramboxapp/community-edition

Steps to reproduce

Add any service with links in its content (eg: tweetdeck)
Click on any link that appears in the content
Neither the link opens in its tab or new tab nor in the default system browser

Expected behavior

Links are expected to open either inline, or in the default system browser.

Actual behavior

Nothing happens when you click the link.

ENVIRONMENT

Rambox: v0.4.5

OS: CentOS 7

Arch: x64

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Source

crackjack

Most helpful comment

Workaround is to add this to custom code:

setInterval(function(){document.querySelectorAll('.urlPreviewText a').forEach(function(a){a.onclick=function(){window.open(this.href);return false;};});}, 3000);

rokups on 18 Jan 2017

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All 7 comments

It should work. Did you try with other services?

saenzramiro on 5 Dec 2016

Does not work with Slack, GMail and Skype too. Cannot copy the link either, right-click also does not work. There's another ticket for that.

crackjack on 6 Dec 2016

Does not work on Gitter either. However, Discord and Tweetdeck is fine.

OS: xubuntu 16.04
Rambox v0.4.5

Troyciv on 22 Dec 2016

I think it depends of the OS, because on Windows 10 and mac OS works ok.

saenzramiro on 27 Dec 2016

Workaround is to add this to custom code:

setInterval(function(){document.querySelectorAll('.urlPreviewText a').forEach(function(a){a.onclick=function(){window.open(this.href);return false;};});}, 3000);

rokups on 18 Jan 2017

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I am experiencing the same issue on i3wm. Links work fine when using KDE or Gnome. However, when clicking links in i3wm nothing happens. Adding the custom code to each of the enabled services does not resolve the issue.

Edit: Issue turned out to be with xdg-open configuration that was only made apparent when using i3.