Can't get Firefox to act as default browser

[John Pilkington]

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.

John P

[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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[John Pilkington]

Anne Wilson wrote:
>  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
>  
>   
Yes, thanks.  That does appear to have done the trick; I've selected 
/usr/bin/thunderbird as email client there too - ie, in Settings > 
System Settings > Default Applications.

I notice that the Settings > Preferred Applications window, if activated 
twice, is labelled 'Gnome-default-applications-properties' and so could 
well be inappropriate, but it does seem a pity that so many apparently 
but not functionally equivalent procedures coexist.

John P

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Sat, 2009-09-05 at 14:19 +0100, John Pilkington wrote:
>  Anne Wilson wrote:
>  > 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
>  > 
>  > 
>  Yes, thanks.  That does appear to have done the trick; I've selected 
>  /usr/bin/thunderbird as email client there too - ie, in Settings > 
>  System Settings > Default Applications.
>  
>  I notice that the Settings > Preferred Applications window, if activated 
>  twice, is labelled 'Gnome-default-applications-properties' and so could 
>  well be inappropriate, but it does seem a pity that so many apparently 
>  but not functionally equivalent procedures coexist. 
On Fedora, both Firefox and Thunderbird assume a Gnome infrastructure,
so you can also change these settings by running gnome-control-center
from a Shell and selecting Preferred Applications. In fact under KDE 3.5
I think that was the only way to do it, but I may be mistaken.

poc

[Anne Wilson]

On Saturday 05 September 2009 14:19:00 John Pilkington wrote:
>  > In the systemsettings dialogue, setting the browser to
> '/usr/bin/firefox'
>  > works for me.
>  >
>  > Anne
>
>  Yes, thanks.  That does appear to have done the trick; I've selected
>  /usr/bin/thunderbird as email client there too - ie, in Settings >
>  System Settings > Default Applications.
>
>  I notice that the Settings > Preferred Applications window, if activated
>  twice, is labelled 'Gnome-default-applications-properties' and so could
>  well be inappropriate, but it does seem a pity that so many apparently
>  but not functionally equivalent procedures coexist. 
Gnome and KDE applications/procedures?  There has been the beginning of talks 
between the desktops about interactivity, but it's not going to happen 
overnight.  The recent joint conference in Gran Canaria helped get a few idea 
started, and maybe next time we have a joint conference (maybe 2011?) 
hopefully more progress will be made.

Anne
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