Anne Wilson wrote:
On Saturday 05 September 2009 12:57:19 John Pilkington wrote:
> Hi: fc10 x86_64 running kde 4.3 from updates.
>
> I used to have Firefox as default browser. Now web links from
> Thunderbird always get Konq.
>
> Within Firefox, Preferences > Advanced > System Defaults says that
> Firefox is already my default browser.
>
> Settings > Preferred Applications > Web Browser can be set to Firefox,
> but gets reset to 'Custom' with all the options greyed out and the
> Command shown as '/usr/lib64/firefox-3.0.13/firefox "%s"'
>
> I haven't tried the script given here
>
>
http://userbase.kde.org/Tutorials/Modify_KDE_defaults
>
> which seems to be intended for cases in which the System Settings route
> is inconvenient and looks like overkill for my case as a sole user.
>
> Any suggestions appreciated.
>
In the systemsettings dialogue, setting the browser to '/usr/bin/firefox'
works for me.
Anne
Yes, thanks. That does appear to have done the trick; I've selected
/usr/bin/thunderbird as email client there too - ie, in Settings >
System Settings > Default Applications.
I notice that the Settings > Preferred Applications window, if activated
twice, is labelled 'Gnome-default-applications-properties' and so could
well be inappropriate, but it does seem a pity that so many apparently
but not functionally equivalent procedures coexist.
John P