Nazgulled Posted May 10, 2004 Report Share Posted May 10, 2004 Is there such thing in mandrake? I've installed firefox and if there is some way to make it the default browser for pages and not the kde browser (can't spell it lol and i'm on windows now so I can't check the name...) a friend sent me a link on msn and I wanted it to open on firefox but it wasn't like that.... so, if it's possible, how can I set firefox to be the default browser? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spinynorman Posted May 10, 2004 Report Share Posted May 10, 2004 In KDE, go to the Configuration menu, navigate to KDE - Components - File associations. Under known types, open up the Text tab and select Html. If Firefox is shown in the application preference order, click and move it to the top. If not, click on Add and select Networking then WWW - hopefully Firefox will be listed - select then move it to the top of the list. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nazgulled Posted May 10, 2004 Author Report Share Posted May 10, 2004 thanks, but won't that just work for html files? if I follow a link in an msn client, it will be opened in firefox? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phunni Posted May 10, 2004 Report Share Posted May 10, 2004 If the link in the msn client is to html, then it will open in firefox Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nazgulled Posted May 10, 2004 Author Report Share Posted May 10, 2004 what if the link is something like: www.something.com or www.something.com/somefolder/ will it work? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spinynorman Posted May 10, 2004 Report Share Posted May 10, 2004 It should work because you are implicitly using http when you use the www prefix. When the website is located, there is usually an index.html file to execute. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nazgulled Posted May 10, 2004 Author Report Share Posted May 10, 2004 what if it's index.php or index.asp? am I making too manu connections? lol... sorry... but thanks for the help I guess about this we are done... thanks a lot ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tyme Posted May 10, 2004 Report Share Posted May 10, 2004 KDE doesn't have a setting for "Default Browser" somewhere? wow...gnome does anywho, nazgulled: yes, it should use it for any webpage (i don't know of seperate associations for .php and .asp, but there may be) of course, you could always ask someone to send you a link with one of those in it and then test it out...right? if it doesn't work, just look in the same place for PHP and ASP as you did for HTML Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nazgulled Posted May 10, 2004 Author Report Share Posted May 10, 2004 alright, thanks a lot ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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