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noranthon

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Sunday, June 4th 2006, 10:59am

browser selection in Mandriva is faulty

Hi. I had this problem on Mandriva 2005 and now 2006. I select Firefox as the default browser using KDE >Components >Component Chooser. When I click on a web link in any application other than Adobe (which controls its own browser setting), a copy of the web page is downloaded and the copy is opened in firefox.

If I make no such selection, the link opens the web page in Konqueror as one would expect. I have installed firefox from the Mozilla foundation and OpenOffice from OpenOffice.org. It is the use of links in OpenOffice documents which is the main concern.

Does anyone know of a way to fix this problem? ?(

EDIT: I should, perhaps, delete this but it may be of interest to someone. A respondent on another forum pointed me to this link. In my case, I simply had to add the string %u to the command registered in file associations. That string evidently tells Konqueror that the command is capable of opening the link.

This post has been edited 1 times, last edit by "noranthon" (Jun 4th 2006, 11:50am)