Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 138861
firefox-kmail interaction problems
Last modified: 2007-11-30 17:10:54 EST
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3.3; Linux; X11; en_US) (KHTML, like Gecko) Description of problem: I have two problems when I click onto URL's contained in a mail message: 1. While mozilla and konqueror open the html location directly, firefox opens the html file copied to /var/tmp/kde-cache/krun/.... The result of this is that any referred images in the html file does not show up since they are not in the tmp directory. 2. When I click on a login reference to a NY Times article I get the login page. With firefox if you type your username and password and click login you get a message saying /auth/login cannot be found and login fails (you can login directly from firefox), however, when mozilla or konqueror are the default browsers they work just fine. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): firefox-1.0-1 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Make firefox default browser (under kde, don't know about gnome) 2. Strart kmail and click on a url contained in a mail message 3. Should be tested with mozilla mail or thunderbird too. Additional info:
SOLUTION! If one puts "firefox %u" instead of "firefox" into /usr/share/applications/mozilla-firefox.desktop than kde knows the url and firefox opens at the location instead of using the cached file. The second problem seems to go away too. One little problem with this is that if you already have a firefox running after clicking on the link the new page opens but the little firefox icon keeps blinking for about 30 seconds. If there is no other firefox open this does not happen. FYI
Is it possible to add the %u to the desktop file for the next release so that I don't have to change it by hand? It effects all embedded links under KDE with firefox.
Just a reminder that the mozilla-firefox.desktop needs %u for firefox to work with links in documents and e-mail. Thanks
Any particular reason why this small change is not making it into new updates? It is a pain to go make this change on many machines everytime firefox is updated.
Fixed in FC3, FC4 and RHEL4.