[Bug 172387] mail context menu: open link with firefox, konqueror, opera, other installed browser

[Janet]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=172387

--- Comment #5 from Janet <bugzilla at kerridis.de> ---
Instead of adding additional context menu entries you could also make use of
the middle mouse button to let the user open links in a second browser. Left
click opens in default browser, middle click opens in alternative browser.

It's exactly as m.wege at web.de says. One has a default browser and the need to
open certain URLs with another one because the sites do not work correctly with
your default and otherwise loved browser. You might say that it's the problem
of the browser devs. In first place it is, yes. You are right in saying that by
default people use a specific browser, yes, but that's not the point. And do
you really want to advice the people using konqueror to switch to another
browser?

I did, finally. And yes, it was the lack of this feature in Kmail that led me
to the decision. I like konqueror a lot and would love to use it as default
browser for most of the sites but I didn't like that I have to copy & paste
specific URLs in KMail to temporarily use another browser. It's about
convenience and workflow, so I switched completely because of Kmail's lack of
assistance. Kind of funny isn't it? 

BTW there are other use cases where it might be helpful to be able to open a
link from kmail in another than the default browser: Imagine two persons using
one computer with one user profile (no, they don't want two profiles because
they don't want to hide things from each other etc...). They use kmail with two
accounts, no problem. But they use different browsers because they want
different bookmarks and need different cookies to be set. One of them always
has to copy & paste the links. Or two people using the same bookmarks but e.g.
just having two facebook accounts or the like. So they want to open all links
for email address 1 with konqueror and all links from address 2 with firefox.
Or one person with private and job accounts and the need for different browsers
for different email addresses...

Well, I just found the launchy add-on for thunderbird which does exactly what
we requested for kmail... so yes, kind of resolved for me I guess.

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