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carloswill

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Wednesday, April 12th 2006, 6:36pm

Thunderbird Wont Use FF?

I am using KDE 3.5.2 and have recently installed Firefox 1.5 and Thunderbird 1.0.7.

The problem is when I click a hyper link from an email inside Thunderbird, KDE or Thunderbird uses Konqueror to resolve that URL which I don't want.

I have selected Thunderbird as my default mail client and Firefox as my default browser under "Control Center > KDE Components > Component Chooser".

Can anyone please tell me how to resolve this annoyance?
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Thursday, April 13th 2006, 4:35pm

I noticed that when I open a link in another application like Open Office (Writter) it also opens Konq. rather than Firefox.
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Thursday, April 13th 2006, 5:02pm

Try this to fix this in OpenOffice.org, assuming you're using 2.0 or higher.

Set the environment variable BROWSER to 'firefox'. This can be done in ~/.bashrc:

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export BROWSER=firefox
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For Thunderbird, re-check your default browser setting. It should read 'firefox %u', not just firefox.
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Thursday, April 13th 2006, 5:27pm

Bedankt voor uw hulp

I changed the setting in KDE control center to read "firefox%u" and will see if that makes a difference. I may have to restart KDE so let me see what I can do...

I don't think changing anything in Open Office is the solution as many apps use Konq rather than Firefox so I would assume it's KDE not the application that is the problem.
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Thursday, April 13th 2006, 5:56pm

In case of Thunderbird it is very likely the application's fault.

Mozilla's applications have very bad desktop integration, so they usually launch "something"

I am not sure how the OpenOffice KDE Integration handles launching, but it might be at fault as well.

One good way to configure launching in external (non-KDE) applications is to use
kfmclient exec %u
as the command, because kfmclient exec will then use whatever you set in Control Centre

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