Bug 138861 - firefox-kmail interaction problems
Summary: firefox-kmail interaction problems
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: firefox
Version: rawhide
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
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Assignee: Christopher Aillon
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2004-11-11 17:32 UTC by Sammy
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:10 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2005-05-16 09:40:12 UTC
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Description Sammy 2004-11-11 17:32:21 UTC
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:

Comment 1 Sammy 2004-11-11 17:48:12 UTC
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

Comment 2 Sammy 2004-11-15 20:39:06 UTC
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. 

Comment 3 Sammy 2004-12-12 21:10:36 UTC
Just a reminder that the mozilla-firefox.desktop needs %u for firefox 
to work with links in documents and e-mail. 
Thanks 

Comment 4 Sammy 2004-12-17 13:38:59 UTC
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. 

Comment 5 Warren Togami 2005-05-16 09:40:12 UTC
Fixed in FC3, FC4 and RHEL4.


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