On Sat, 2009-09-05 at 14:19 +0100, John Pilkington wrote: > 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. On Fedora, both Firefox and Thunderbird assume a Gnome infrastructure, so you can also change these settings by running gnome-control-center from a Shell and selecting Preferred Applications. In fact under KDE 3.5 I think that was the only way to do it, but I may be mistaken. poc
