Re: Empty chromium pops open when sending email with URL

James Thomas <[email protected]> Mon, 16 Jun 2025 09:20:01 +0530
Newsgroups gmane.emacs.gnus.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Steinar Bang writes:

>>>>>> Steinar Bang <[email protected]>:
>
>> Platform: debian 12.11 "bookworm", amd64, GNU Emacs 30.1, Gnus v5.13
>> Seems like every time I do 'C-c C-c' on an email containing an URL, an
>> empty chromium window pops up.
>
>> Does anyone know why this happens?
>
>> What did I do...? Whatever I did it wasn't intentional...
>
> It was self-inflected, sort of.
>
> My diagnosis was wrong: it wasn't just emails with URLs that caused an
> empty chromium to pop up.
>
> It was all emails attempted sent that caused an empty chromium to pop
> up.
>
> And opening the chromium window was what message mode did, instead of
> sending the email...
>
> The fix was to stop Gnus, stop emacs, start a new emacs and a new Gnus.
>
> I think maybe this was caused by a question at the end of a
> 'M-x report-emacs-bug' session last week...?
>
> (the bug report never got any response either, so it probably never went
> out either)
>
> (My lesson: start a new emacs process if I plan to report an emacs
> bug.... grumble!)

(My 2c)

ISTR something similar as well. Maybe something in:

(grep-find (concat "find " installation-directory "lisp/gnus -type f -regex .*\\.el -print0 | \"xargs\" -0 grep --color=auto -nH --null -e shr-"))

...is to blame; perhaps -content-function or -insert-document.

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