For me, this was caused by my custom .desktop file. I downloaded
Firefox, unpacked it to my home and created a .desktop file for it in
~/.local/share/applicaitons as so:
#!/usr/bin/env xdg-open
[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Terminal=false
Icon[en_US]=firefox
Name[en_US]=Firefox latest
Exec=/home/local/ANT/naddeo/firefox/firefox
Comment[en_US]=Firefox directly from tgz
Name=Firefox latest
Comment=Firefox directly from tgz
Icon=firefox
The issue was caused by my Exec line. I had to update it to this:
Exec=/home/local/ANT/naddeo/firefox/firefox %u
Then external link clicks starting working again. I found that out by
looking at the .desktop file that the Firefox in the ubuntu repos uses
at /usr/share/applications/firefox.desktop and copying that.
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