URL handling in Gnome broken, recently

[Koop Mast]

On 3-8-2011 13:34, Michal Varga wrote:
> Does anyone know which update broke url handling in Gnome some time
> recently, I'd assume in between last one-to-three weeks?
>
> I realized the symptoms too late to narrow it down to a specific port
> now, and I have no idea what handles url requests - gnome-vfs, maybe, or
> some friends above/below?
>
> Basically, opening an URL now from any gnome/gtk application is
> completely fubared, clicking a web page link in something like
> gnome-terminal, pidgin, etc. launches a new epiphany window instead of
> reusing the old one and opening a new tab (thus completely ignoring
> 'preferences>  preferred applications' control panel), clicking a link
> from evolution even silently fails half the time, or some times launches
> a new browser instance about ten minutes later, clicking any http image
> link first internally checks the mime type (or it seems so) on the
> server and then launches the url in eog (merciful god, why), and so on.
>
> It's really impossible to work with URLs in Gnome at this moment, other
> than manually copy/pasting them into a running browser every single
> time.
>
> Some ideas on what went wrong?
>
> m.
>
>
I don't know what went wrong. I'm going to see if I can find out some 
details about it. You said that after the glib+gtk update this issue 
started to show up?

-Koop