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#1

Hi all,

If I could find a way to search I would have. :frowning:

New OpenSUSE forum user, OLD SUSE user - I bought SuSE 6.x to get the ADABAS database.

For many years I believed that any release after 7.3 was a step backwards. In fact Iā€™m so old I can remember when dirt was clean. :wink:

My problem is I was forced to upgrade from OpenSUSE 10.3 to 11.2 on short notice.

Now I have a HUGE irritation - I worked around the problems and they were challenging, but not a constant itch under my skin, as this is.

The irritation is that I am running KDE 4.3.x with Evolution 2.28.0, and I can find no way to change the default browser from Epiphany to Firefox.

I have used the magic of Google without any relief from the itch.

Can anybody help - Iā€™m sure itā€™s easy, but it eludes me.

Cheers
Richard

#2

Ah, you canā€™t be that oldā€“I remember when the Dead Sea wasnā€™t even sick.:\

During my 11.2 install a Firefox icon was automatically installed on the desktop folder. I suspect that such should be the norm, but you never know with Linux. :wink: Even if that didnā€™t happen, after accessing Firefox in the regular menu, right click on Firefox and select either Add to Favorites, Add to Desktop, or Add to Panelā€“depending on where you want the shortcut to appear. I hope that is somewhere in the ballpark of what you were seeking.

#3

I dunno, I can remember when General motors was still a private. :wink:

I donā€™t have a problem with running Firefox, I have a problem clicking on a link in email, and it tries to open the link with Epiphany, which I donā€™t have installed.

How do I tell Evolution to stop being silly?

Another thing with Evo thatā€™s causing me vast irritation is when I delete an email and press Ctl-E to expunge, it very often tells me thereā€™s an error while expunging.

The only way I can get round that one is to close Evo totally and then run ā€œfind .evolution/ -name ā€œ*indexā€ -deleteā€ and try again.

Very disturbing release, this one. Although at last when running Evo under KDE, the box asking for passwords actually gets the focus instead of being orphaned.

#4

Welcome to the forums. Iā€™m old tooā€¦:wink:

Try this:

Systemsettings, Default Applications. Change the mail program from Epiphany to whatever you want.

Question:
Did you reuse your homedir over and over again? You might be suffering from old settings. A clean /home/USERNAME/.kde4 can often improve or even solve matters.

#5

Thanks,

I really donā€™t seem to be making myself clear.

I am using Evolution as my email agent. Itā€™s semi-satisfactory (but letā€™s not get into that).

When I click on a web URL in an email message, it tries to open the link - unfortunately it tries to open it with Epiphany which is the Gnome default browser, instead of Firefox. I do have Firefox installed, I donā€™t have Epiphany installed and probably never will.

Changing email agents is not an option - I transferred my mail to Kmail over the weekend, and Kmail decided to abend all over the place.

Hope this helps.
Richard

#6

OK - I figured this out ('cause I needed it too):

  • Close Evolution
  • With YAST, install gconf-editor
  • From a Terminal, run: gconf-editor
  • Navigate to desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http
  • For ā€œCommandā€, enter without quotes: ā€˜firefox %sā€™
  • Repeat this for desktop/gnome/url-handlers/https

Fire Evolution back up and Firefox now opens for links

#7

Man that was too easy. :wink:

Thank you very much for that - itā€™s been a constant irritation.

I suppose I better start a new thread for my Evolution Expunge problem.

Thanks again
Richard

#8

Thank you for sharing!

/Kevin

#9

Thank you as well! I just upgraded from openSUSE 10.1 straight to 11.2 and was just piecing my user experience back againā€¦

#10

Thanks for posting the fix - very helpful