[Techtalk] Default browser for Kmail

[Robyn Manning]

Hi

If you open the KDE Control Centre and go to File Browsing, File
Associations, text, html and in the Application Preference Order add
mozilla %u and move it to the top of the list.

hth

Robyn

On Sat, 2002-06-15 at 15:19, Tabatha Persad wrote:
> Hi there everyone,
> 
> I am having some difficulty opening links in Kmail.  It seems that 
> when I've first logged on, it'll open one or two, and then it doesn't 
> want to anymore.  A small window pops up with a loading - progress 
> window, but at that point, no browser window opens.
> 
> I did a ps -aux and found that I had about 6 konqueror-sessions 
> running, so I killed them, and when I click on a link, it says along 
> the status bar of Kmail that it's opening URL, but again, nothing 
> happens, and there is now no processes running for Konqueror.  I even 
> tried exiting Kmail and restarting it but of course that didn't work.
> 
> Usually the browser of choice has automatically defaulted to 
> Konqueror.  I went into the Kmail settings and could not find 
> anything on choosing a default browser.  I can't figure out either 
> why the sessions get stuck in the first place.  (I run Kmail 1.3.1 
> using KDE 2.2.1 in Mandrake 8.1).
> 
> I wondered if anyone might know the solution to making Konqueror, or 
> even Mozilla open when a link from email is clicked on, or what might 
> be preventing the browser from opening.  I'm hoping this isn't one of 
> those right-under-your-nose ones, but what the heck, HELP! hehehe
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> -- 
> Tabatha Persad
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