Comment 6 for bug 476471

I ran into this problem today on all distributions from Hardy up to the latest version of Ubuntu.

Please could you put a higher priority on fixing this as it is a part from the free desktop spec.

http://standards.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/latest/

Could you also suggest an alternative to opening a file://somepath/index.html link in the default web browser as I know you will never fix this in older versions of Ubuntu that I have to support.