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Author: Lynn David Newton
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To: Erik Bixby, Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: Re: silly browser problem

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 <> 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
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