On Wed, 12 Oct 2005 17:40:24 -0600, Jim Wagner wrote:
> John King wrote:
>> On Tue, 11 Oct 2005 22:37:21 -0600, Jim Wagner wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I'm using OO 2.0 rc on Mandrake 10.0
>>>
>>>In previous versions of OpenOffice, there was a place to put in the
>>>launcher of my usual browser, in my case, Firefox.
>>>
>>>Among the changes in OO2.0 was to either remove this, or to hide it
>>>somewhere and rename it so looking up "external programs" on Help does
>>>nothing.
>>>
>>>OpenOffice will launch my Konqueror Browser, but unfortunately I have
>>>not been able to make Konqueror display Unicode consistently.
>>>
>>>Anyone know how to make OO talk to Firefox? JimW
>>
>>
>> I'm using Firefox on KDE in Suse 9.2. I set it as the default browser
>> in the KDE control panel, but this didn't seem to make any difference to
>> the way in which OO behaved.
>>
>> However, I had the same problem getting Evolution using Firefox as the
>> default browser until I found some references on Google to the effect
>> that you have to set Firefox as the default browser in Gnome to do this.
>> I don't use gnome, but learned that if I issued the commandline
>> command:
>>
>> gnome-default-applications-properties
>>
>> it called up a dialogue in which I could set the default browser to
>> firefox %s
>> That solved the evolution problem, and apparently did the same for OO,
>> though I've no idea why.
>>
>> Try it and see.
>>
>>
>>
> Just tried it. Unfortunately, links still come up on Konqueror.
>
> JimW
Jim
I just set up a new user on my machine, and sure enough clicking on a link
in ooo opened up konqueror.
However, the following sequence set firefox as the browser:
KDE control centre
kde components
component chooser
web browser
Default component
– in the following browser
firefox
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John
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