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[RichardNeill <ubuntu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hello Brian, Thanks for your comment.
If I type the following command at the shell:
   xdg-open "http://www.bbc.co.uk";

Then I get a newly opened, maximised Firefox window, which opens a blank page 
(the Ubuntu start page, exactly as if within Firefox, I had pressed Ctrl+N.)

However, if I run either of the following commands:
   firefox  "http://www.bbc.co.uk";
  firefox -new-tab  "http://www.bbc.co.uk";
then the BBC page opens in a new tab as I would expect.

I'm doing this in Ubuntu Mate, 64-bit, Wily, fully updated as of now,
Firefox is already running.

Are there any other tests it would help for me to do?

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1464053

Title:
  ubuntu-bug is itself broken

Status in apport package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  The ubuntu bug reporting system is rather badly broken, because when I
  run ubuntu-bug/apport-bug, it gathers data, then opens a new blank
  firefox window, but does not connect to launchpad!

  The root cause is this one:
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/exo/+bug/1427144
  which basically means that apport needs to invoke firefox with a different set of options.

  This should be trivial to fix, but I think it's rather important, especially given how hard it is to get a direct report into Launchpad, and all the redirects that emphasise using the ubuntu-bug tool: 
  https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ReportingBugs

  (I'm reporting this from Ubuntu Wily, though I think I recall seeing it in Vivid)
  Apport version is:  2.17.3-0ubuntu4

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