torbrowser script bug - cannot open local files that contain spaces

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i have saved a website in the form of .html , but when i double click on it i get this error message:-

qubes 3.1rc , whonix 12 tester repository , TBB 5.0.7

########################################################### ## torbrowser script bug. ## No panic. Nothing is broken. Just some rare condition ## has been hit. Try again later. There is likely a ## solution for this problem. Please see the Whonix News, ## Whonix User Help Forum and Whonix Documentation. ## https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Tor_Browser ## Please report this bug! ## ## BASH_COMMAND: /usr/lib/open_link_confirmation $other_args ## exit_code: 1 ## ## output: /usr/lib/msgcollector/msgcollector ## output_opts: --icon /usr/share/icons/anon-icon-pack/tbupdate.ico --parentpid 3358 --identifier torbrowser --parenttty none --whoami user ## progressbaridx: ## ## Experts only: ## bash -x torbrowser ###########################################################

to reproduce this , go for example to http://sharetext.net then type anything and click on submit then save/download the link , then double click on the .html link which is located in the download folder. (open it with TBB) = there.

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Confirmed. Thanks for your report!

There is an upstream bug involved here that I just reported.
The Tor Project Bug report
start-tor-browser.desktop parameter passing broken on spaces

Fixes will appear in Whonix 13. And at some point in the testers repository.

Please re-test this in Whonix 13 testers-only release or when the
tb-starter package is updated. Will take a while. No ETA yet.

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