XFCE opening folders in Firefox instead of Thunar

If I do something like select Dropbox's "Open Dropbox Folder" or choose to "Open containing folder" of a downloaded file in Chromium, Firefox starts up and displays the folder contents (as a directory listing). This is baffling for a number of reasons: first, I have selected Thunar as my preferred file manager (choosing PCManFM does not fix this problem, either), and second, Chromium is selected as my default browser, not Firefox.
Any suggestions on what might be causing this and how I can address it? Thanks very much in advance!

You should give some more info when posting here, such as the desktop environment you use. This may help (discussion on xdg-open with no desktop environment, which i assume is the case here) : https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ch … nvironment
Last edited by rwd (2011-03-05 19:31:04)

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