Subject: 24.3.50; browse-url silently fails

From: Sam Steingold <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2013 12:54:52 -0400

browse-url silently fails:

$ emacs -Q
M-x browse-url RET http://gnu.org RET

the *Messages* buffer now has this:

Waiting for process to die...done

The google chrome (the default browser) does not display anyting.

In GNU Emacs 24.3.50.3 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.6.4)
 of 2013-08-20 on t520sds
Bzr revision: 113958 [email-masked]
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11303000
System Description:	Ubuntu 13.04

Configured using:
 `configure --with-wide-int'

Important settings:
  value of $LC_COLLATE: C
  value of $LANG: C
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
  default enable-multibyte-characters: t

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