Clicking links and having them open in Firefox

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#1

Whenever I click a link within an application like the KDE theme selection download dialog or in libreoffice and it opens the link in Firefox, it always downloads the link, saves it somewhere in /var and then opens it in firefox. However this is annoying since none of the buttons on sites work since they rely on original link. Is there a way to stop these programs from downloading the page and instead just send the link to firefox and have it open them?

#2

alanbortu wrote:
>
> Whenever I click a link within an application like the KDE theme
> selection download dialog or in libreoffice and it opens the link in
> Firefox, it always downloads the link, saves it somewhere in /var and
> then opens it in firefox. However this is annoying since none of the
> buttons on sites work since they rely on original link. Is there a way
> to stop these programs from downloading the page and instead just send
> the link to firefox and have it open them?
>
>
you mean /tmp ? Never heard of such weird behaviour.

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#3

It stores it in /var/tmp/kdecache-username/krun

Here is an example, it’s really annoying.

http://oi44.tinypic.com/2q2n8jq.jpg

#4

alanbortu wrote:
> ecache-username/krun
>
> Here is an example, it’s really annoying.
Install chatzilla(IRC client) in Firefox and try the same again. It
might be a issue of QT apps not communicating well with GTK apps.

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#5

Yep that did it. The question now is there any way to fix this or will I have to resort to using GTK applications?

#6

alanbortu wrote:
> Yep that did it. The question now is there any way to fix this or will I
> have to resort to using GTK applications?
>
Or use/set konqueror/rekonq as default browser. Those browsers may play
well with rest of QT apps.

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#7

alanbortu wrote:
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> vazhavandan;2604100 Wrote:
>> alanbortu wrote:
>>> ecache-username/krun
>>>
>>> Here is an example, it’s really annoying.
>> Install chatzilla(IRC client) in Firefox and try the same again. It
>> might be a issue of QT apps not communicating well with GTK apps.
>>
>
> Yep that did it. The question now is there any way to fix this or will I
> have to resort to using GTK applications?
>
>
I found a probable solution here
http://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=225&t=111730&p=267809&hilit=cache#p267636

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#8

Thanks a lot I think that has solved it. All I had to do was explicitly set /usr/bin/firefox as the default browser and now it opens it with the actual link and not some temp file.

#9

alanbortu wrote:
> Thanks a lot I think that has solved it. All I had to do was explicitly
> set /usr/bin/firefox as the default browser and now it opens it with the
> actual link and not some temp file.
you are welcome

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