[issue23262] webbrowser module broken with Firefox 36+

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[issue23262] webbrowser module broken with Firefox 36+

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I think this six year old issue can be closed. All patches for 3.x are 
committed, and Python 2.7 is EOL.

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[issue23262] webbrowser module broken with Firefox 36+

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Processo webbrowser.3.5-2.patch

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[issue23262] webbrowser module broken with Firefox 36+

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[issue23262] webbrowser module broken with Firefox 36+

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[issue23262] webbrowser module broken with Firefox 36+

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[issue23262] webbrowser module broken with Firefox 36+

[Oleg Broytman]

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> I'm not sure that we can break the compatibility with old browser

I agree with this.

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[issue23262] webbrowser module broken with Firefox 36+

[Serhiy Storchaka]

Serhiy Storchaka added the comment:

I don't understand with what you disagree. I can imagine old Python 2.7 with 
old browser, old Python 2.7 with new browser, new Python 2.7 with new browser, 
and even new Python 2.7 with old browser on the same computer (but the latter 
is very unlikely).

Old Python 2.7 don't work with new browser and we can't do anything with this. 
We can make new Python 2.7.12 working with new browser. But I'm not sure that 
we can break the compatibility with old browser that could be installed when 
Python 2.7 was first installed on the same computer.

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[issue23262] webbrowser module broken with Firefox 36+

[Oleg Broytman]

Oleg Broytman added the comment:

Let's me disagree because Python 2.7 is a very special case. One can easily 
update a browser — they are perfectly compatible. But one cannot just update 
Python 2.7 because Python 3 is rather a different language that requires a lot 
of porting effort. So I can imagine Python 2.7 with new browser on the same 
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[issue23262] webbrowser module broken with Firefox 36+

[Serhiy Storchaka]

Serhiy Storchaka added the comment:

What to do with 2.7? We can just backport the patch from 3.5, but also can use 
the version check from earlier Oleg's patches. 2.7 was released long time ago 
and still can be used on systems with old browsers (however it is very unlikely 
that Python is updated, but browsers are not).

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[issue23262] webbrowser module broken with Firefox 36+

[Roundup Robot]

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New changeset dacb52577c1c by Serhiy Storchaka in branch '3.5':
Issue #23262: The webbrowser module now supports Firefox 36+ and derived
https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/dacb52577c1c

New changeset f1abc92a756a by Serhiy Storchaka in branch '3.6':
- Issue #23262: The webbrowser module now supports Firefox 36+ and derived
https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/f1abc92a756a

New changeset cade42bd0ee0 by Serhiy Storchaka in branch 'default':
Issue #23262: The webbrowser module now supports Firefox 36+ and derived
https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/cade42bd0ee0

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[issue23262] webbrowser module broken with Firefox 36+

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[issue23262] webbrowser module broken with Firefox 36+

[Oleg Broytman]

Oleg Broytman added the comment:

Then I don't have any objections. But I also couldn't test the change — I only 
use Firefox (and sometimes Chrome).

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[issue23262] webbrowser module broken with Firefox 36+

[Serhiy Storchaka]

Serhiy Storchaka added the comment:

Currently Netscape is just an alias to Mozilla. Since SeaMonkey is synchronized 
with Firefox, I suppose it dropped the support of the -remote option at the 
same time. Debian rebranded Firefox and SeaMonkey at 2006, therefore IceWeasel 
and IceApe always supported -new-win and -new-tab options. The last IceWeasel 
version was 38, it didn't supported the -remote option.

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[issue23262] webbrowser module broken with Firefox 36+

[Oleg Broytman]

Oleg Broytman added the comment:

I'd rather rename the new class to something like Firefox. So there will be 3 
classes — Netscape, Mozilla and Firefox. Firefox only for firefox executable.

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[issue23262] webbrowser module broken with Firefox 36+

[Serhiy Storchaka]

Serhiy Storchaka added the comment:

The problem is that this class is used for Netscape and old Mozilla browsers. 
What if rename old Mozilla class to Netscape and use it for old browsers?

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[issue23262] webbrowser module broken with Firefox 36+

[Serhiy Storchaka]

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[issue23262] webbrowser module broken with Firefox 36+

[Oleg Broytman]

Oleg Broytman added the comment:

Done.

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[issue23262] webbrowser module broken with Firefox 36+

[Oleg Broytman]

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[issue23262] webbrowser module broken with Firefox 36+

[Oleg Broytman]

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[issue23262] webbrowser module broken with Firefox 36+

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[issue23262] webbrowser module broken with Firefox 36+

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[issue23262] webbrowser module broken with Firefox 36+

[Serhiy Storchaka]

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Could you please provide a patch including all changes in unified format?

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[issue23262] webbrowser module broken with Firefox 36+

[Oleg Broytman]

Oleg Broytman added the comment:

Oops, yes, mea culpa, sorry. Patch for the test added.

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[issue23262] webbrowser module broken with Firefox 36+

[Serhiy Storchaka]

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$ ./python -m test.regrtest -vuall test_webbrowser
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==
FAIL: test_open (test.test_webbrowser.MozillaCommandTest)
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/serhiy/py/cpython-3.5/Lib/test/test_webbrowser.py", line 99, in 
test_open
arguments=['openURL({})'.format(URL)])
  File "/home/serhiy/py/cpython-3.5/Lib/test/test_webbrowser.py", line 42, in 
_test
self.assertIn(option, popen_args)
AssertionError: '-raise' not found in ['http://www.example.com']

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[issue23262] webbrowser module broken with Firefox 36+

[Oleg Broytman]

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What's the error? Buildbot URL?

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[issue23262] webbrowser module broken with Firefox 36+

[Serhiy Storchaka]

Serhiy Storchaka added the comment:

Tests are failed with webbrowser.py-3.5-newfox.patch.

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[issue23262] webbrowser module broken with Firefox 36+

[Oleg Broytman]

Oleg Broytman added the comment:

Ah, I see. Ok then, see the new patch.

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[issue23262] webbrowser module broken with Firefox 36+

[Serhiy Storchaka]

Serhiy Storchaka added the comment:

> I don't think Firefox versions <36 are too old to be dropped.

Just Firefox versions <1.5.

Firefox 1.5 released 11 years ago supported options -new-window and -new-tab 
[1].

[1] 
http://website-archive.mozilla.org/www.mozilla.org/firefox_releasenotes/en-US/firefox/releases/1.5.html

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[issue23262] webbrowser module broken with Firefox 36+

[Oleg Broytman]

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I don't think Firefox versions <36 are too old to be dropped.

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[issue23262] webbrowser module broken with Firefox 36+

[Serhiy Storchaka]

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Would not be easier to drop a support of SeaMonkey 1.x and other ancient 
browsers?

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[issue23262] webbrowser module broken with Firefox 36+

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[issue23262] webbrowser module broken with Firefox 36+

[Oleg Broytman]

Oleg Broytman added the comment:

Remove empty args (backported from 3.4).

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[issue23262] webbrowser module broken with Firefox 36+

[Oleg Broytman]

Oleg Broytman added the comment:

Add NewFox class to webbrowser for Py 3.4 (added raise_opts — Mozilla no longer 
supports autoraise).

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[issue23262] webbrowser module broken with Firefox 36+

[Oleg Broytman]

Oleg Broytman added the comment:

Add NewFox class to webbrowser for Py 2.7 (added raise_opts — Mozilla no longer 
supports autoraise).

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[issue23262] webbrowser module broken with Firefox 36+

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[issue23262] webbrowser module broken with Firefox 36+

[Oleg Broytman]

Oleg Broytman added the comment:

I am on Debian 8 "jessie" that only has Python 3.4, so I want to patch 
webbrowser.py in a backward-compatible way.

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[issue23262] webbrowser module broken with Firefox 36+

[Berker Peksag]

Berker Peksag added the comment:

I was talking about webbrowser.py-3.4-newfox.patch

3.4 is now in security-fix-only mode so we can't push the patch to the 3.4 
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[issue23262] webbrowser module broken with Firefox 36+

[Oleg Broytman]

Oleg Broytman added the comment:

Updated patch for Python 2.7 with subprocess.check_output().

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[issue23262] webbrowser module broken with Firefox 36+

[Oleg Broytman]

Oleg Broytman added the comment:

Updated patch for Python 3.4+ with subprocess.check_output().

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[issue23262] webbrowser module broken with Firefox 36+

[Oleg Broytman]

Oleg Broytman added the comment:

Not subprocess.run() as I'm aiming to Python 2.7. Perhaps 
subprocess.check_output(). I'll try it.

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[issue23262] webbrowser module broken with Firefox 36+

[Berker Peksag]

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Thanks for the patches! Can't you just use a function from the high level 
subprocess API (like subprocess.run()?

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[issue23262] webbrowser module broken with Firefox 36+

[Oleg Broytman]

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Patch for Python 2.7 to support Firefox >= 36.0, with version test.

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[issue23262] webbrowser module broken with Firefox 36+

[Oleg Broytman]

Oleg Broytman added the comment:

Patch for Python 3.4 and 3.5 to support Firefox >= 36.0, with version test.

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[issue23262] webbrowser module broken with Firefox 36+

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[issue23262] webbrowser module broken with Firefox 36+

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[issue23262] webbrowser module broken with Firefox 36+

[Serhiy Storchaka]

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May it is time to drop support of SeaMonkey 1.x and systems released 8 years 
ago. But then we should drop the support of browsers "netsape", "mozilla", 
"firebird". And this should be documented somewhere.

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[issue23262] webbrowser module broken with Firefox 36+

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> this will break the support of IceApe on Debian Etch

Is Python committed to supporting obsolete Debian releases? The latest 
oldstable Debian release (6.0 Squeeze) has iceape-2.0.11 [1], which does seem 
to support the -new-window and -new-tab options (I haven't actually tested 
this, though - I just looked at the source code [2]).

The iceweasel/iceape products are just rebranded versions of Firefox and 
Seamonkey. The webbrowser module currently supports them via the generic 
Mozilla class - so Python should only be concerned about which versions of the 
common Mozilla codebase it needs to continue support for.

[1] 
https://packages.debian.org/search?suite=squeeze&searchon=names&keywords=iceape
[2] 
http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-mozilla/iceape.git/tree/mozilla/browser/components/nsBrowserContentHandler.js?h=squeeze#n419

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[issue23262] webbrowser module broken with Firefox 36+

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[issue23262] webbrowser module broken with Firefox 36+

[Serhiy Storchaka]

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--new-window and --new-tab are Firefox and SeaMonkey2.x only. [1] So this will 
break the support of IceApe on Debian Etch (iceape v.1.0.13 [2]).

[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Command_Line_Options
[2] http://archive.debian.net/etch/devel/iceape

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[issue23262] webbrowser module broken with Firefox 36+

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bazwal added the comment:

I arrived at an almost identical solution to the one given by Oleg. It works 
for me with FF 28, 35 & 36 - but presumably there are earlier versions where it 
does not, otherise why have the -remote option at all?

The gist of the Mozilla bug report is that the option has existed for a very 
long time, but there are now other command-line options that do exactly the 
same thing. So the only question seems to be whether Python should still 
support those older versions of FF that actually require it (if any exist).

On the xdg-open issue: the $BROWSER env var has priority over the default list 
of browsers to try, so that might explain why xdg-open is not being used on 
some systems (that is how I originally became aware of this problem).

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[issue23262] webbrowser module broken with Firefox 36+

[Oleg Broytman]

Oleg Broytman added the comment:

I created the attached module to work with new FF in Python 2.7. You can 
convert it to proper patch for webbrowser.py.

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[issue23262] webbrowser module broken with Firefox 36+

[Stephan Sokolow]

Stephan Sokolow added the comment:

Noted. I'm not sure what my schedule will be like, but I'll try.

(I may get back to you with an answer later today or I may not within the week.)

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[issue23262] webbrowser module broken with Firefox 36+

[Antoine Pitrou]

Antoine Pitrou added the comment:

Oops, sorry. The best way forward would be for you to investigate and find out 
why xdg-open isn't preferred in your setting.

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[issue23262] webbrowser module broken with Firefox 36+

[Stephan Sokolow]

Stephan Sokolow added the comment:

WinPdb = Windowed Pdb, not MS Windows Pdb.

`sudo apt-get install winpdb`

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[issue23262] webbrowser module broken with Firefox 36+

[Antoine Pitrou]

Antoine Pitrou added the comment:

> Well, then the code which chooses a backend is broken because I have
xdg-open and, according to WinPdb, it's using the Mozilla backend.

You have xdg-open under Windows?

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[issue23262] webbrowser module broken with Firefox 36+

[Stephan Sokolow]

Stephan Sokolow added the comment:

Well, then the code which chooses a backend is broken because I have xdg-open 
and, according to WinPdb, it's using the Mozilla backend.

This was my local workaround:

if os.name == 'posix' and not platform.mac_ver()[0]:
with open(os.devnull, 'wb') as nul:
subprocess.Popen(['xdg-open', request_url], stdout=nul, stderr=nul)
else:
webbrowser.open_new_tab(request_url)

(This retrofit branch hasn't yet reached the point where it'll be tested on 
Windows. I may still add another branch which calls `start` directly if it 
proves to have the same priority bug on Windows.)

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[issue23262] webbrowser module broken with Firefox 36+

[Antoine Pitrou]

Antoine Pitrou added the comment:

That doesn't really answer the question. The webbrowser module is already able 
to use "xdg-open" (though not "open"), but it has a fallback on various 
concrete browsers (including Firefox) in case xdg-open doesn't work / doesn't 
exist.

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[issue23262] webbrowser module broken with Firefox 36+

[Stephan Sokolow]

Stephan Sokolow added the comment:

The proper solution is to prefer `start` (Windows), `open` (OSX), or `xdg-open` 
(everything else... usually but not always present) when present instead of 
calling the browser directly.

That way, you're using the same "delegate to the desktop's associations system 
and let the user's preferences control new window vs. new tab" behaviour on all 
OSes where it's reliably possible.

(Yes, it would guarantee that all open* functions are equivalent, but that's 
already the norm in a lot of cases... especially with Firefox where one of the 
guiding design principles is ensuring that the user retains control of their 
browsing experience.)

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[issue23262] webbrowser module broken with Firefox 36+

[Serhiy Storchaka]

Serhiy Storchaka added the comment:

Details: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1080319

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[issue23262] webbrowser module broken with Firefox 36+

[Antoine Pitrou]

Antoine Pitrou added the comment:

What is the right way to do it then? It should also remain compatible with 
Firefox < 36.

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[issue23262] webbrowser module broken with Firefox 36+

[Stephan Sokolow]

New submission from Stephan Sokolow:

As of Firefox 36 (currently in beta channel), the -remote option has been 
removed.

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/36.0a2/auroranotes/
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/36.0beta/releasenotes/

As such, attempting to open http://www.example.com/ using webbrowser.open() or 
webbrowser.open_new_tab() results in "File not Found" tabs pointing to these 
two URLs, respectively:

file:///home/ssokolow/openURL%28http://www.example.com/%29
file:///home/ssokolow/openURL%28http://www.example.com/,new-tab%29

As I happen to have the Dead Snakes PPA set up on Lubuntu 14.04 for use with 
tox, I was able to confirm this as an issue in Python 2.7, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, and 
3.4.

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title: webbrowser module broken with Firefox 36+
type: behavior
versions: Python 2.7, Python 3.2, Python 3.3, Python 3.4

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