Opening link with Firefox using KMail doesn't work

bakreule

Hello all, I'm using KDE 3.2.3 and I'm having some trouble with KMail version 1.6.2. I wanted to open a URL someone sent me that had a flash animation. KMail tried to open it with Konqueror. Konqueror didn't have a plugin for it, but Firefox did. So I changed the file association for html files to open with Firefox. KMail took the new settings but the page that is opened up is a file:// page, not a http:// as specified in the file. As a result, the page is incomplete and doesn't contain any real data, just background frames and such.

I'm at a loss to explain why KMail would pass a file:// URL when the email specified http://. Any ideas? Thanks.....

papal_authority · Veteran Joined: 31 Mar 2004 Posts: 1823 Location: Canada

1. KDE Control Centre -> File Browsing -> File Associations -> text -> html

2. Delete all the existing entries with the "Delete" button.

3. Click "Add" button.

4. Type: /usr/bin/firefox %u

5. Click "Apply" button.
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bakreule · Posted: Thu Dec 30, 2004 5:54 pm Post subject:

Thank you very much, the %u did it........

Slack006 · Posted: Sun Jan 09, 2005 10:49 pm Post subject: ideas?

Any ideas why using the following line would start up the URL in a new tab in an existing window (what I wanted it to do), AND opens a new window with the URL: