I know that this sounds bizarre, but since I upgraded my system from Libranet 2.8 (2.4 kernel) to 3 (2.6 kernel, KDE 3.3.2), it appears that only KDE applications are able to connect to Internet sites using URLs. I have three non-KDE applications (Firefox, Moneydance, Epiphany (web browser)) that fail to connect using URLs and four KDE applications (Konqueror, KMail, KNode, KNewsTicker that succeed. Firefox and Epiphany are able to connect using IP numbers. The fact that IP numbers work suggests a DNS problem, but DNS lives at my ISP so I don't see how it would be able to discriminate against only certain apps. Well, I don't see how anything would. Is there anything in KDE that might account for this favoritism? -- Jeffrey Barish ___________________________________________________ . Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.