looks like at some point eos-arch-news used xdg-open, but due to some bug it was changed to only work for firefox and chromium https://gitlab.com/Austcool-Walker/PKGBUILDS/-/commit/ce29e1109bdc14c99b56d0673995338bbbeaf1a2
i don’t have either of those browsers installed (am using google-chrome from AUR). are there any plans to switch back to using xdg-open?
I thought that is the reason the news didn’t work. I uninstalled Firefox, use Waterfox instead. Hopefully that can be changed to just a ‘default’ browser setting.
just tried undoing that change (commented out the browser stuff and used xdg-open instead) and it works on my machine
Added xdg-open, just released it.
Updated and it now works. Thank you. 
Is it acting the same on Live ISO about xdg-open ?
On live iso there is firefox available. Is this what you meant or something else?
Nope, in the case to open a file ?
xdg-open {file | URL}
xdg-open should work the same on the iso and an installed system. It can open urls and files.
