Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-kde (237 mails)

[Bob Williams <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Saturday 14 February 2009 06:18:49 Basil Chupin wrote:
> Bob Williams wrote:
> > When I click on a link in an e-mail or mailing list message, such as
> >
> > http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
> >
> > My default browser (Firefox) starts up and loads a cached copy of the
> > page, rather than the online page itself. So the example given above,
> > results in me looking at
> >
> > file:///home/bob/.kde4/cache-barrowhillfarm/krun/6996.0.smart-questions.h
> > tml
> >
> > I can't remember when this started happening. I don't remember
> > consciously changing any setting. Is there some way to get it back to
> > loading the actual link address into the browser address bar?
> >
> > Bob
>
> You don't mention which version of Firefox nor which version of oS you
> are running;

Sorry. Firefox 3.0.6

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> nevertheless, Firefox stores all webpages you access, and
> anything you download from the 'net like Youtube videos, in
> ~/.mozilla/firefox/*.default/Cache and when you request a webpage it
> brings up the one stored in Cache *if that page has not been updated by
> the URL the page came from*; if it has been updated then it will get the
> new page from the URL. In your case, what appears to be happening is
> that the page you have requested has not changed from the one you asked
> for at an earlier time.
No. My problem is not with revisiting pages that Firefox has stored in its 
cache. My problem occurs when I click on a link in an external program, such 
as KMail 1.11, which then opens Firefox (or whichever browser is set as my 
default) and loads a cached (in ~/.kde4/cache/..) vesion of the link I clicked 
on. IOW, my browser is showing me a local file, not a remote site on the web.

> However, things can go wrong and one of the recognised fixes for suspect
> problems like the one you mention is to *delete* the directory 'Cache'
> (or its contents) - it will recreate itself automatically when you start
> Firefox.
I don't think this is relevant, for the reasons given above.

[snipped irrelevant information on how to cover your tracks on the family 
computer, if you visit sites that you might be embarrassed to admit to]

Bob
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