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Since I upgraded Thunderbird, I've been finding that when I click on a link in Thunderbird, it opens the link in Konqueror. Now, I have no problems with Konqueror - it's OK as a web browser - but my browser of choice, at the moment, is Firefox.
Firstly, because Thunderbird is a gnome application, I tried setting my preferred browser in the Gnome Control Center to Firefox. This didn't work, however, probably because I'm using KDE.
I then did:
dpkg-reconfigure mozilla-thunderbirdThis recommended that I use the 'Debian' option which I did. I later found that this set the Thunderbird preferences in /etc/mozilla-thunderbird/auto-config.js. This file recommened that I use update-alternatives rather than edit auto-config.js. So, far so complicated.
Doing this:
update-alternatives --display x-www-browserLed to this output:
x-www-browser - status is auto.
link currently points to /usr/bin/konqueror
/usr/bin/konqueror - priority 100
/usr/bin/mozilla - priority 80
slave x-www-browser.1.gz: /usr/share/man/man1/mozilla.1.gz
/usr/bin/firefox - priority 70
slave x-www-browser.1.gz: /usr/share/man/man1/firefox.1.gz
Current `best' version is /usr/bin/konquerorSo, I want to change this to firefox. so did:
update-alternatives --config x-www-browserThis presented me with three options, I chose the one related to /usr/bin/firefox. Now, whenever I click on a link in Thunderbird, it is displayed in Firefox.
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From gnome there is a little program that allows you to change this. I had a similar problem with debian-sensible-browser acting a little, well, insensible ;-)
System->Preferences->Default Applications on an ubuntu system.
I have a similar problem right now because I need a mozilla-firefox package to get the embedded debian widget I am using in some code which depends on firefox which overwrites my settings pointing /usr/bin/firefox and friends to /usr/local/bin/firefox/
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I too have experienced this same problem using KDE under Mandriva 2006 and no matter what I tried Thunderbird still opened Konqueror. It drove me crazy. I read your post and tried what you suggested but of course nothing helped. But it got me thinking.
From the the command prompt I did a 'set' and I noticed:
BROWSER=/usr/bin/www-browser
Ok, I checked that out and found a script:
(snip)
#using KDE
if [[ -n "$KDE_FULL_SESSION" ]]; then
NEWBROWSER=`grep -m 1 'BrowserApplication=' $HOME/.kde/share/config/kdeglobals 2>/dev/null`
[[ -z "$NEWBROWSER" ]] && NEWBROWSER=`grep -m 1 'BrowserApplication=' /etc/kde/kdeglobals 2>/dev/null`
if [[ -n "$NEWBROWSER" ]]; then BROWSER=`echo $NEWBROWSER | sed -e 's/BrowserApplication=//' -e 's/!//'`
fi
fi
strip_browser_var
[[ -z "$BROWSER" ]] && BROWSER=`which mozilla-firefox 2> /dev/null`
[[ -z "$BROWSER" ]] && [[ -n "$KDE_FULL_SESSION" ]] && which kfmclient > /dev/null 2>&1 && BROWSER="kfmclient openProfile webbrowsing"
[[ -z "$BROWSER" ]] && BROWSER=`which epiphany 2> /dev/null`
[[ -z "$BROWSER" ]] && BROWSER=`which galeon 2> /dev/null`
[[ -z "$BROWSER" ]] && BROWSER=`which mozilla 2> /dev/null`
[[ -z "$BROWSER" ]] && which kfmclient > /dev/null 2>&1 && BROWSER="kfmclient openProfile webbrowsing"
[[ -z "$BROWSER" ]] && which links > /dev/null 2>&1 && BROWSER="xvt -e links"
So it's looking for mozilla-firefox, not firefox, therefore it's defaultong to konqueror. Also, I had installed firefox under the user so it sits in /home/frank/firefox. I tried symbolic links and other stuff but settled on the brute force method of adding this line to near the end of script:
(snip)
# b.c.s.i. vvvvvv this line added
BROWSER=/home/frank/firefox/firefox
if [[ -n "$BROWSER" ]]; then
exec $BROWSER "$@"
else
echo "no web browser detected"
fi
Thunderbird now calls firefox instead of konqueror.
Posted by Guest User on 2006-10-18 16:10:16.