On 7 March 2011 14:11, Kevin Krammer <[email protected]> wrote: > On Monday, 2011-03-07, Cassiano Leal wrote: > > On 7 March 2011 11:59, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > On 2011-03-07 08:00:16 Cassiano Leal wrote: > > > >Hi list, > > > > > > > >It began a few weeks ago, but now clicking links on any KDE app > (Chokoq, > > > >Kmail, ...) is a pain. Instead of simply passing the link URL to the > > > >browser, KDE is downloading the webpage and opening the temporary file > > > >-- e.g. /var/tmp/kdecache-cassiano/krun/13052.0.~PNgiz . > > > > (...) > > > > Because of this, KDE may be preferring passing the temporary file to the > > > > > application more often. Using the "in the following browser" option > > > instead > > > may force KDE to not load the URL itself and simply fork/exec the > chosen > > > browser. > > > > Based on what you said, I went on to testing these configurations. The > > option to open based on the contents opens Konqueror (at least for > > webpages) and passes the URL to it. > > > > The "in the followin browser" option seems to work fine too, and allows > me > > to choose the browser I want -- with one exception, which is the one I > had > > been using: Firefox nightly builds. Tried chromium, arora, konqueror and > > iceweasel and all work fine. > > > > I switching back to Iceweasel (usually my default browser, but since the > > FF4 nightlies began to stabilise I had changed to them). > > There could be something slightly wrong with the actual command. > Basically launcher entries are specified by .desktop files, which have a > line > telling the launcher which command to execute (executable name, parameters, > etc). > > This line supports placeholders, for URLs that's %u and %U (one URL and > list > of URLs respectively). > If they are missing, the launcher might decide to play save and download > the > content of the URL it got and pass that to the application. >
Bull's eye. Adding %u to the end of the command solved the issue with FF. Thanks, mate! > Cheers, > Kevin > Cheers, Cassiano
