Recently I unearthed the solution to the problem of getting Firefox to invoke kmail for mailto: links. Now I'm confronted with the inverse problem: getting kmail to invoke Firefox to follow links embedded in email messages.
Getting kmail to call Firefox is easy: the Component Chooser in the KDE Control Center. What's hard is getting Firefox to open the link. Neither Konqueror nor Mozilla has this problem. If I set the browser in the Component Chooser to mozilla or to konqueror, the cited browser is opened and displays the contents of the link. But with firefox, the browser opens an empty page.
To understand this better, I issued these three commands from a shell:
konqueror http://www.suse.com mozilla http://www.suse.com firefox http://www.suse.com
As expected, the first two opened up the SuSE web page; the third opened a blank page.
There have been a number of postings on this subject, explaining (correctly) how to make Firefox the default browser. But I can find nothing about how to get it to open the link. I looked at the firefox shell script that eventually causes firefox-bin to be invoked, and it has no references to $1 except in a function. Since I can find no one who's asked about this, I'm wondering if there was a change of behavior when Firefox was upgraded to version 1.5.
So has anyone gotten this to work? If so, what's the trick?
Paul ========== I thought about the %u thing too Stan, but that doesn't help. I get all 3 to work the same as you posted Paul. I am using Firefox 1.0.7 though and not 1.5. Something seems to have changed between the versions and I think Stan is on the right path, but %u is not the solution, I don't
On Monday 19 December 2005 22:38, Paul W. Abrahams wrote: think. Try it with your 1.5 to let us know the outcome. Lee