KMail&MozillaFirebird

[James Richard Tyrer]

Chris Colohan wrote:
> David Corbin writes:
>  > On Monday 10 November 2003 04:49, Kevin Krammer wrote:
>  > > On Sunday 09 November 2003 04:17, sol&diederic wrote:
>  > > > Hi list members,
>  > > > I'm using: ML-9.1, KDE3.1.3;
>  > > > I changed from Konqueror to MozillaFirebird as browser. That's fine,
>  > > > not problems.   However, if I click on a url in an email than Konquorer
>  > > > is used and not MozillaFirebird.
>  > > >
>  > > > Is there any way to change this behaviour?
>  > >
>  > > Control Center->KDE Components-> File Associations
>  > > Change the program that for text/html
>  > > Check you have %u in the parameter list of the program command, otherwise
>  > > the URL will be downloaded to a local file first and then given to the
>  > > application.
>  > 
>  > I have %u in mine, but Konquer still tries to download it first.
> 
> Me too.  In particular, when I click on a URL in kzephyr (a chat
> client I wrote, which uses the same call as KMail for opening URLs)
> then KDE opens a konqueror window, which remains empty and just sits
> there, since konqueror calls mozilla to render the HTML.
> 
> Is there a way of avoiding having this empty window pop up on my
> screen?  I don't care if konqueror is invoked, but does it have to
> open an empty window on my screen before it calls mozilla?  Or is
> there a way of avoiding this?

Exactly how do you have KDE configured for the MIME type "text/html"?

I don't see any reason that it should do this unless it is the way Kmail is 
configured.

What happens if you click on an HTML file on your desktop?

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JRT

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