silly browser problem

[Geoff Petersen]

Try going to Control Center --> KDE Components --> Component Chooser. 
Change the Web Browser default to open URLs "in an application based
on the contents of the URL".

Geoff

On 7/19/05, Lynn David Newton <lnewton at mvista.com> wrote:
> 
> Here's a silly KDE type problem.
> 
> I'm running SuSE 9.2 Pro and KDE with Firefox (1.05) as
> my standard browser. It's configured as such wherever
> it is in you tell it to use that as the standard
> browser, has been since day one.
> 
> Sometimes I need to use a different browser. Today I
> found a Web page with a terrible appearance (very light
> gray text on a white background, completely
> unreadable), and wanted to see if it looked any better
> using Konqueror, so I started it and typed in the URL,
> and when I pressed return, it sent it off to Firefox
> instead of running it in Konqueror. Grrr. That's not
> what I want. I can use the file:///path protocol just
> fine in Konqueror, but http gets exported the default
> browser.
> 
> My feeling is that the purpose of defining a default
> browser should be for the purpose of interacting with
> application programs that call a browser, e.g., a mail
> tool or an OpenOffice document or whatever, but if I'm
> running a browser and type in a URL in its location
> bar, it's because I want to see it in *that browser*.
> Why else would I be running a non-default browser?
> 
> Does anyone know how I get around that problem?
> 
> --
> Lynn David Newton
> MontaVista Software, Inc.
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> Email: lnewton at mvista.com
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