diff --git a/scripts/xdg-open b/scripts/xdg-open
index fee4204..b9ed3a1 100755
--- a/scripts/xdg-open
+++ b/scripts/xdg-open
@@ -386,25 +386,31 @@ open_xfce()
 open_generic_xdg_mime()
 {
     filetype=`xdg-mime query filetype "$1" | sed "s/;.*//"`
-    default=`xdg-mime query default "$filetype"`
-    if [ -n "$default" ] ; then
+    defaults=`xdg-mime query default "$filetype"`
+    if [ -n "$defaults" ] ; then
         xdg_user_dir="$XDG_DATA_HOME"
         [ -n "$xdg_user_dir" ] || xdg_user_dir="$HOME/.local/share"
 
         xdg_system_dirs="$XDG_DATA_DIRS"
         [ -n "$xdg_system_dirs" ] || xdg_system_dirs=/usr/local/share/:/usr/share/
 
-        for x in `echo "$xdg_user_dir:$xdg_system_dirs" | sed 's/:/ /g'`; do
-            local file="$x/applications/$default"
-            if [ -r "$file" ] ; then
-                command="`grep -E "^Exec(\[[^]=]*])?=" "$file" | cut -d= -f 2- | first_word`"
-                command_exec=`which $command 2>/dev/null`
-                if [ -x "$command_exec" ] ; then
-                    $command_exec "$1"
-                    if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
-                        exit_success
+        IFS=";"
+        for default in $defaults; do
+            if [ x"$default" != x"" ]; then
+                unset IFS
+                for x in `echo "$xdg_user_dir:$xdg_system_dirs" | sed 's/:/ /g'`; do
+                    local file="$x/applications/$default"
+                    if [ -r "$file" ] ; then
+                        command="`grep -E "^Exec(\[[^]=]*])?=" "$file" | cut -d= -f 2- | first_word`"
+                        command_exec=`which $command 2>/dev/null`
+                        if [ -x "$command_exec" ] ; then
+                            $command_exec "$1"
+                            if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
+                                exit_success
+                            fi
+                        fi
                     fi
-                fi
+                done
             fi
         done
     fi