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 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@mvista.com > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss