Links open firefox with starting page, instead of link content (linux)

Question

Problem:

For some mysterious reason, when I open a link in firefox, a new firefox instance opens. Also note instead of the content of the link, my home-page shows up.

Instead I would like a new tab to open in my running instance and actually show the content of the link.

but I would like to make it work for firefox?

I am running Fedora Linux 21, with emacs 24.4.1.

Troubleshooting:

1) If I set my browser to chrome/eww, then it works:

(setq browse-url-browser-function 'browse-url-generic
      browse-url-generic-program "google-chrome")

2) I tried loading my emacs with emacs -q and dissabling all firefox plugins, but the result was the same.

EDIT: Solution:

As per post below, I rebuild emacs from sources and that solved the problem.

In case anyone reads this, I wrote a blog entry on how to rebuild emacs on fedora: https://coffeeorientedprogramming.wordpress.com/2015/03/11/how-to-compilebuild-emacs-from-scratch-on-fedora/

For Ubuntu: http://ergoemacs.org/emacs/building_emacs_on_linux.html

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 11 '15 at 13:57

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This is due to a Firefox upgrade that changed the command line parameters. It's fixed in both trunk and emacs24 git branch.

answered Mar 11 '15 at 13:57

abo-abo

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Thank you for your reply. I had to figure out how to rebuild emacs from sources, but once done the issue is fixed. Thank you . – Leo Ufimtsev Mar 11 '15 at 14:39
Do you happen to know what the command-line parameters to give are? – pglpm Aug 13 '19 at 20:42

Links open firefox with starting page, instead of link content (linux)

Problem:

Troubleshooting:

EDIT: Solution:

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