[Users] URL not passed to Firefox

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Fri, 30 Mar 2018 10:19:22 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>On Fri, 30 Mar 2018 15:28:51 +0800, appakhabar wrote:
>>Firefox 59.0.2 (64-bit)
>>Mageia 6  
>
>Because you mentioned QupZilla, an outdated browser, since QupZilla was
>renamed to Falkon, but at the same time you mention the latest release
>of Firefox I'm curious, so I used your distro's package search.
>Regarding
>https://madb.mageia.org/package/show/name/firefox/release/6/arch/x86_64
>it seems to be, that official repositories of your distro do not
>provide Firefox 59.0.2.
>
>Perhaps you are using a third party thingy, installing the executable
>to e.g. /opt or /usr/lib/foo or similar? The location might be not
>part of PATH, but the desktop file might execute Firefox via the path
>or by a different named launcher.
>
>IOW what do you get, if you try to start Firefox from command line
>without a path?
>
>Just run
>
>  firefox
>
>from command line.

Oops!

IIUC now, Firefox does start, it just does not get the URL? It still
could be possible, that in e.g. /usr/bin is a bad written wrapper
script named firefox, that does not pass the URL through to the
executalble.