Yeah, i wrote the new browser backend just before Christmas. In the new backend you can choose whether to open URL in the browser or using wget.

It will run wget with command like this:

It checks the return codes and throws errors accordingly.

I was hoping that the new Irreco release would come a bit sooner, so i did not bother to release browser backend it on its own. But well, it seemed to take longer than i thought.

I think that the reason command-line backend does not work properly with some URL's is because some letters like & have special meanings on Unix shell command line, and this breaks the links when the shell executes the commands.

Web browser backend on the other hand spawns wget or browser directly, so the links should not get mangled.