Dan Lewis wrote:

> On Saturday October 20 2007 05:40 am, Graham P Davis wrote:
>> Cor Nouws wrote:
>> > Hi Graham,
>> >
>> > Graham P Davis wrote (19-10-2007 18:53)
>> >
>> >> I'm trying to edit hyperlinks in an odt document. I've managed to
>> >> change all bar one. As soon as I try to edit one particular hyperlink
>> >> it crashes. Adding to this problem it's taken me quite a time to get
>> >> recovery to work without crashing - probably as a result of the
>> >> hyperlink document.
>> >>
>> >> The offending hyperlink is
>> >> ftp://ftp.hosteurope.de/mirror/ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/update/10.2
>> >>
>> >> I've tried opening a new document, selecting insert/hyperlink, and
>> >> typing the address in from scratch, but as soon as I type the "m" for
>> >> "mirror" - or any other character in that same position - bang!
>> >>
>> >> I'm running on OpenSUSE 10.3.
>> >
>> > I cannot reproduce with OOo 2.3 on Win XP.
>> > So there must be something special in your situation...
>> > Do you have the official version of the OOo project?
>>
>> The version is one provided by Novell/OpenSUSE. I see slight
>> differences, for instance the drop-down menu under "insert" has no icon
>> against "hyperlink".
>>
>> I've now tried OOo under XP and spotted where I think the problem *may*
>> lie. In the particular hyperlink, the failure occurs at the same point
>> as where, in my trial on XP, predictive typing begins - typing "m"
>> yields "mirror" - but this doesn't explain why it didn't fail on other
>> hyperlinks.
>>
>> I'll raise this problem on a Novell newsgroup but they may say the
>> problem could be associated with the Linux version of OOo and not with
>> any modifications they've made. They correctly pointed out that some
>> annoying differences I reported with their version of Firefox were
>> actually features of the Firefox Linux release.
> 
>     I just tried inserting your offending hyperlink using the Linux
>     version
> of OOo 2.3.0 from the OOo web site. First, I copy and pasted the hyperlink
> from your email. Secondly, I wrote the hyperlink out. Thirdly, I inserted
> the hyperlink by using Insert > Hyperlink. I was able to access the ftp
> site by Control+click using all three hyperlinks. My conclusion is that
> the problem did not originate  with the Linux version from the OOo web
> site.
> 

Thanks Dan, that saves me installing Ubuntu just to test it out. 

As an aside to this, I got irritated after installing OpenSUSE 10.3 when I
found control+click opened Konqueror instead of my default browser,
Firefox. I was surprised to find that right-click + open-hyperlink opened
Firefox. Now, that oddity has gone and I'm stuck with Konqueror whichever
route I try. Of course, if I open the same document with Kword and click on
the link, Firefox opens. Weird!

Cheers.

-- 
Graham P Davis, Bracknell, Berks., UK.    E-mail: newsman, not newsboy.
"What use is happiness? It can't buy you money."  [Chic Murray, 1919-85]

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