Clicking internet links doesn't work

[hcvv]

I added the "%u" after the command

Why wasn't it there in the first place? That is rather crucial.

[fperal]

I have been searching for this problem because I have exactly the same problem described.
I'm using Leap 15.3 and plasma 5.18.6.
Firefox is the default browser.
When I open most links it opens a local file instead

fernando@andromeda:~> xdg-open https://forums.opensuse.org 
fernando@andromeda:~> command= "firefox" args= ("firefox", "https://forums.opensuse.org") 
kf.kio.core: Protocol Class of url QUrl("https://forums.opensuse.org") , isn't ':local', cancelling job. 
Copying QUrl("https://forums.opensuse.org")  to QUrl("file:///home/fernando/.cache/kioexec/krun/6808_0/unnamed") 
Telling kioexecd to watch path "/home/fernando/.cache/kioexec/krun/6808_0/unnamed" dest "https://forums.opensuse.org" 
All files downloaded, will call slotRunApp shortly 
EXEC "/usr/bin/firefox /home/fernando/.cache/kioexec/krun/6808_0/unnamed" 
EXEC done

[fperal]

I have been searching for this problem because I have exactly the same problem described.
I'm using Leap 15.3 and plasma 5.18.6.
Firefox is the default browser.
When I open most links it opens a local file instead

fernando@andromeda:~> xdg-open https://forums.opensuse.org 
fernando@andromeda:~> command= "firefox" args= ("firefox", "https://forums.opensuse.org") 
kf.kio.core: Protocol Class of url QUrl("https://forums.opensuse.org") , isn't ':local', cancelling job. 
Copying QUrl("https://forums.opensuse.org")  to QUrl("file:///home/fernando/.cache/kioexec/krun/6808_0/unnamed") 
Telling kioexecd to watch path "/home/fernando/.cache/kioexec/krun/6808_0/unnamed" dest "https://forums.opensuse.org" 
All files downloaded, will call slotRunApp shortly 
EXEC "/usr/bin/firefox /home/fernando/.cache/kioexec/krun/6808_0/unnamed" 
EXEC done

I found the problem.
In system setting I had set web browser to "with the following command" set to
firefox
I changed it to /usr/bin/firefox and it works

[hcvv]

I found the problem.
In system setting I had set web browser to "with the following command" set to
firefox
I changed it to /usr/bin/firefox and it works

I my KDE System Settings, the "with the following command" is not checked at all.

[fperal]

I my KDE System Settings, the "with the following command" is not checked at all.

I have three options

*In an application based in the contents of the url
*in the following application
*with the following command


in the second option only chromium, seamonkey and opera appear, so y used the third one

[hcvv]

I have the same three option.

But the second shows Firefox or Konqueror only (which is correct, I do not have any other installed). I never changed there, because Firefox is nowadays the default in KDE and thus this was already as it is now surviving several upgrades.

Thus I guess the strange thing here is that you do not have Firefox in that list, although you have it installed?

[fperal]

I have the same three option.

But the second shows Firefox or Konqueror only (which is correct, I do not have any other installed). I never changed there, because Firefox is nowadays the default in KDE and thus this was already as it is now surviving several upgrades.

Thus I guess the strange thing here is that you do not have Firefox in that list, although you have it installed?

One funny thing more.
In some applications (for instance I use telegram app to use telegram and rambox to use whatsapp in the pc) the links where not working, after changing the "with the following command" now they work ...... but with chromium!!!! but there is not set in any of this applications to use chromium. Then I change the system settings to "In an application based in the contents of the url" open one of these programs, click on a link and it opens firefox, but not the link. And if I set "in the following application" and set opera, then it open the link with opera

[fperal]

One funny thing more.
In some applications (for instance I use telegram app to use telegram and rambox to use whatsapp in the pc) the links where not working, after changing the "with the following command" now they work ...... but with chromium!!!! but there is not set in any of this applications to use chromium. Then I change the system settings to "In an application based in the contents of the url" open one of these programs, click on a link and it opens firefox, but not the link. And if I set "in the following application" and set opera, then it open the link with opera

and then I change again to "In an application based in the contents of the url" and it continues using opera, and I change again to "with the following command" and it continues using opera too

[hcvv]

Sorry I have no idea why this seemingly random use of browsers. I only wanted to show you what I have in a rather bland situation: only standard installed browsers and never (in this area) changed KDE config.

[nrickert]

I have three options

*In an application based in the contents of the url
*in the following application
*with the following command


in the second option only chromium, seamonkey and opera appear, so y used the third one

When using those settings, I click on the small icon to the right of "with the following". That gives me an application window where I can find "firefox". This should set it the way that KDE expects.