Can't get Firefox to act as default browser

[Anne Wilson]

On Saturday 05 September 2009 12:57:19 John Pilkington wrote:
> Hi: fc10 x86_64 running kde 4.3 from updates.
>
> I used to have Firefox as default browser.  Now web links from
> Thunderbird always get Konq.
>
> Within Firefox, Preferences > Advanced > System Defaults says that
> Firefox is already my default browser.
>
> Settings > Preferred Applications > Web Browser can be set to Firefox,
> but gets reset to 'Custom' with all the options greyed out and the
> Command shown as  '/usr/lib64/firefox-3.0.13/firefox "%s"'
>
> I haven't tried the script given here
>
> http://userbase.kde.org/Tutorials/Modify_KDE_defaults
>
> which seems to be intended for cases in which the System Settings route
> is inconvenient and looks like overkill for my case as a sole user.
>
> Any suggestions appreciated.
>
In the systemsettings dialogue, setting the browser to '/usr/bin/firefox' 
works for me.

Anne
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