I've just commited the ticket for this: http://www.midnight-commander.org/ticket/2965
you may find it interesting as it explains also how xdg-open is working and tries to explain this all is illogical. I also ended up digging into this as suddenly everything was opening in a web browser (fallback for xdg-open).
Regards Adam Pribyl _______________________________________________ mc mailing list https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/mc