I’ve been trying to make Opera (9.52) my default web browser but have come up against brick walls. First, there is no option (in Opera) for making it the default. I changed the setting in the KDE Components section from firefox to opera but now it only halfway works. Clicking on a URL in KNode will open Opera. Clicking one in Thunderbird or Evolution opens Firefox. What do I need to change in order to get this thing working right? By the way, I’m using 11.0/32-bit, KDE 3.5. Thanks!
zachsmith wrote:
>
> I’ve been trying to make Opera (9.52) my default web browser but have
> come up against brick walls. First, there is no option (in Opera) for
> making it the default. I changed the setting in the KDE Components
> section from firefox to opera but now it only halfway works. Clicking
> on a URL in KNode will open Opera. Clicking one in Thunderbird or
> Evolution opens Firefox. What do I need to change in order to get this
> thing working right? By the way, I’m using 11.0/32-bit, KDE 3.5.
> Thanks!
>
>
2 possibilities:
a) t-bird is using the gnome defined browser, so change this in gnome’s config manager (whatever it’s called)
b) there is a $BROWSER environmental variable, try changing it “export BROWSER=/usr/bin/opera”
Suse 11.0 x64, Kde 4.1beta (factory repo), Opera 9.x weekly
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It may also be worth adding a softlink from your user’s ~/bin directory
to opera with the name of ‘mozilla’ or ‘firefox’ or whatever most of
your other apps have configured. So…:
ln -s /usr/bin/opera ~/bin/firefox ~/bin/mozilla ~/bin/whateverElse
Good luck.
google01103 wrote:
| zachsmith wrote:
|
|> I’ve been trying to make Opera (9.52) my default web browser but have
|> come up against brick walls. First, there is no option (in Opera) for
|> making it the default. I changed the setting in the KDE Components
|> section from firefox to opera but now it only halfway works. Clicking
|> on a URL in KNode will open Opera. Clicking one in Thunderbird or
|> Evolution opens Firefox. What do I need to change in order to get this
|> thing working right? By the way, I’m using 11.0/32-bit, KDE 3.5.
|> Thanks!
|>
|>
| 2 possibilities:
| a) t-bird is using the gnome defined browser, so change this in
gnome’s config manager (whatever it’s called)
| b) there is a $BROWSER environmental variable, try changing it “export
BROWSER=/usr/bin/opera”
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It may also be worth adding a softlink from your user’s ~/bin directory
to opera with the name of ‘mozilla’ or ‘firefox’ or whatever most of
your other apps have configured. So…:
ln -s /usr/bin/opera ~/bin/firefox ~/bin/mozilla ~/bin/whateverElse
Good luck.
| 2 possibilities:
| a) t-bird is using the gnome defined browser, so change this in
gnome’s config manager (whatever it’s called)
| b) there is a $BROWSER environmental variable, try changing it “export
BROWSER=/usr/bin/opera”
Got it working with possibility “a”. A Gnome setting was using Firefox as the default. Changed it to opera and all is working like it should. Thanks for the suggestions!