Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-kde (237 mails)

[Bob Williams <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday 20 February 2009 12:50:20 Will Stephenson wrote:
> On Wednesday 11 February 2009 16:31:57 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
> > tm l
> >
> > 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?
>
> How did you set the default browser to firefox?  Apparently this is caused
> by an Exec line for the browser without %u or %U URL placeholders.
>
> Will

I would have done it in the KDE Control Centre/Personal Settings Configure 
Desktop, and I would have picked Firefox from the the list of browsers 
available (no definite memory of these actions as it was some time ago, and 
I've recently had a general anaesthetic, but I usually use GUI configuration 
programs/menus when they're provided). I've added %u and will try a little 
link clicking ...

... hmm, it now seems that it can't find the application mozillafirefox. If I 
choose the upper radio button "in an application based on the contents of the 
URL" then Konqueror opens with the URL correctly loaded. I'll stick with Konq 
as my default browser, while I'm convalescing from this op.

Bob
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