"gnome-open URL" works correctly and opens the URL in a new tab in firefox which is my preferred browser. This works fine for http:// URLs but does not for ftp:// URLs. Using the work-around explained in my initial report where I replaced "nautilus" with "gnome-open" in /usr/share/service-discovery-applet/plugins/nautilus.py allows me to open web sites published via Zeroconf/avahi BUT it breaks the ability to open ftp:// URLs from the service-discovery-applet therefore I am almost sure this is either a nautilus or gnome-vfs bug.
"gnome-open URL" works correctly and opens the URL in a new tab in firefox which is my preferred browser. This works fine for http:// URLs but does not for ftp:// URLs. Using the work-around explained in my initial report where I replaced "nautilus" with "gnome-open" in /usr/share/ service- discovery- applet/ plugins/ nautilus. py allows me to open web sites published via Zeroconf/avahi BUT it breaks the ability to open ftp:// URLs from the service- discovery- applet therefore I am almost sure this is either a nautilus or gnome-vfs bug.