This actually seems to affect links with certain characters only. Here's an example link which does not work: http://www.jimms.fi/tuote/SV200S3%2F256G
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to empathy in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1020473 Title: Empathy cannot open links anymore, "Unable to open URI" Status in “empathy” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: After some of latest updates (12.04 LTS), opening urls from Empathy broke. Clicking a link in conversation window only displays dialog "Unable to open URI, Operation not supported": http://www.foopics.com/showfull/0f0f1a5d5b07b87ea9bdce8067220383 I'm quite certain this worked fine before, and is not result of any misconfiguration as as of this writing, this also happens on my friends installation. ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04 Package: empathy 3.4.2.1-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-26.41-generic 3.2.19 Uname: Linux 3.2.0-26-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu8 Architecture: amd64 Date: Tue Jul 3 12:17:37 2012 InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012) ProcEnviron: LANGUAGE=en_US:en TERM=xterm PATH=(custom, user) LANG=en_US.UTF-8 SHELL=/bin/bash SourcePackage: empathy UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-03-09 (115 days ago) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/empathy/+bug/1020473/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

