diff -Naur xdg-utils-1.0.2.orig/scripts/xdg-open xdg-utils-1.0.2/scripts/xdg-open
--- xdg-utils-1.0.2.orig/scripts/xdg-open	2009-10-07 15:50:30.000000000 +0300
+++ xdg-utils-1.0.2/scripts/xdg-open	2009-10-07 15:58:59.000000000 +0300
@@ -364,7 +364,7 @@
     for browser in $BROWSER; do
         if [ x"$browser" != x"" ]; then
 
-            browser_with_arg=`echo "$browser" | sed s#%s#"$1"#`
+            browser_with_arg=`echo "$browser" | sed s^%s^"$1"^`
 
             if [ x"$browser_with_arg" = x"$browser" ]; then "$browser" "$1";
             else $browser_with_arg;