Gene Heskett wrote:

> Greetings list;
> 
> iceweasel seems to have gone to the dogs with all the libssl updates as
> they try to sort the latest exploit.
> 
> So I am driven to konqueror, which usually works, but when clicking on a
> link to follow in kmail, kmail seems to be passing konqueror a link to
> the display buffer in /var/tmp, as opposed to just passing the text link
> I clicked on.
> 
> It does work ok if I slide the mouse highlight the link, switch to the
> konqueror screen, and middle click paste it into the address bar of
> konqueror.
> 
> Am I the only one with this problem?  Lisi seems to think so.
> 
> Also, and it took a while to find this, the TDE default applications
> menu, and the default applications database konqueror uses, seems to be
> two separate databases, which was very confusing because I could be
> looking at konqueror, clicking on a sublink to try and locate a download
> or docs directory on some external site, and konqueror was passing it to
> iceweasel!  Perhaps this explains why trying to change the "default"
> application in KDE, and not having it take effect until a root session,
> editing something in /etc/kde was also done.  That was a PITA.
> 
> Maybe a bug/feature request is in order?
> 

Hi Gene,
there are two parts here.

The default application in TDE Control Center is to set what you would use
as HTML reader. This means you can get off konqueror (default) and use
something else (firefox, chrom, etc)

The other one is the file association (mime).
Here you have also two parts - one is in konqueror (TDE) and the other is
firefox/iceweasel.

I had the reverse of the problem recently, when I was trying to open a link
or a file (mainly from skype) it was using firefox instead konqueror.

When I had to install chrome for testing purposes I had to rearrange the
alternatives (took me some time to read the docs and set it properly).

I'm not sue where exactly you should check, but could be a good idea to go
through that.

When you go to the Control Center -> Components -> Standard App
you have the option (web browser) to select opening of http/https with
different programs depending on the content and format.

Is this selected for you or the other option below where it says which
external app you want to use?

regards