You're right, perhaps I'm seeing a yelp bug after all. Marking this bug
as fixed. Sorry for wasting some of your time (ALT F2 didn't work for me
before, but it does now >_< )
** Changed in: gnome-vfs2 (Ubuntu)
Status: Confirmed => Fix Released
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gnome-open ftp://URI fails
https://launchpad.net/bugs/8306