kristi Posted June 18, 2005 Report Share Posted June 18, 2005 (edited) I just recently converted to kmail from tbird. I realize now that at the time I was using Opera, and if there was a url in a kmail post, it would open in Opera (assuming I had chosen "opera" in component chooser, web browser. I was having some problems with Opera and decided to go back to firefox for a bit, so I chose "firefox" in the component chooser, web browser, clicked on the url in kmail: something flashes very quickly (it's a copyfile copying a file into /var/tmp ) and then firefox starts and asks me if I would like to open this php script in /var/tmp/kdecache-kristi with kate. (kate shows nothing in the file. I remember that to get thunderbird to open url's in firefox I had to do a mod to get Tbird to link to FFIn Tbird: using the about:config extension about:config right click choose add new string name: network.protocol-handler.app.http string value: /usr/bin/mozffremote Okay so I added /usr/bin/mozffremote to the menu and selected it with the component chooser, but the same thing happened. Anyone know how to open a url from a post in kmail (a topic subscription reply notification) , in firefox? tia!!! Kristi Edited June 18, 2005 by kristi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted June 18, 2005 Report Share Posted June 18, 2005 I just make firefox my default browser in the kde control center ("configure your desktop") Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kristi Posted June 18, 2005 Author Report Share Posted June 18, 2005 Yeah, that's what I did, but It's not working. You use kmail? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted June 18, 2005 Report Share Posted June 18, 2005 I am using kmail in Mandriva. I use Thunderbird in windows. I am using kde 3.4. What are you using? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kristi Posted June 18, 2005 Author Report Share Posted June 18, 2005 yep, I'm on Mandriva 2005A(club KDE3.4) & kmail But when I select configureyour desktop, components, component chooser, web browser, firefox, it does that wierd thing described above. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted June 18, 2005 Report Share Posted June 18, 2005 call it "mozilla-firefox" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kristi Posted June 18, 2005 Author Report Share Posted June 18, 2005 yes, that's it - I've just been abreviating. I choose "mozilla firefox" which is an entry in the menu. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted June 18, 2005 Report Share Posted June 18, 2005 :lol: You have to enter it exactly as I am typing it! mozilla-firefox Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kristi Posted June 18, 2005 Author Report Share Posted June 18, 2005 Damn - how'd you get to be so smart! I clicked on the littlebox to the right of that and that lets you choose from stuff in the menu - it worked fine for opera, so i expected it to work like that for the mozilla firefox menu entry. :woops: :woops: :woops: :woops: Thanks for sticking with me! :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted June 18, 2005 Report Share Posted June 18, 2005 I eat a lot of bananas! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kristi Posted June 18, 2005 Author Report Share Posted June 18, 2005 Many thanks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! /me puts bananas on shopping list! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted June 18, 2005 Report Share Posted June 18, 2005 Another way I got it to work, was to use "gnome-default-applications-properties". When I ran this, I could choose my default browser, email program etc. The reason I used this was because under 10.1 OE you cannot set your default browser in KDE, like you can with the updated version (think it's because of KDE 3.2). Sometimes, I had to edit the file associations too, so that Firefox was in the list higher than konqueror etc, and all that sort of stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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