silly browser problem

[Lynn David Newton]

  eb> http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/qna/11680.html

Thanks, but that's what I'd already done. You missed
the point of my question.

  eb> 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.
  >> 2141 E. Broadway Road, Suite 108
  >> Tempe, AZ 85282
  >> Phone: 480-517-5047
  >> Email: lnewton at mvista.com
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