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Bug 522170 - ...Preferred browser->Check now->Yes doesn't work in kde
Summary: ...Preferred browser->Check now->Yes doesn't work in kde
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: firefox
Version: 12
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Gecko Maintainer
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2009-09-09 16:18 UTC by Robin Green
Modified: 2010-08-20 11:55 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2010-08-20 11:55:52 UTC
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Description Robin Green 2009-09-09 16:18:38 UTC 
Description of problem:
xdg-open does not use the user's preferred application for opening URLs, contrary to the man page. It simply assumes that if the user is using KDE, Konqueror must be preferred.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
xdg-utils-1.0.2-10.20090824cvs.fc12.noarch


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. In Firefox, Edit->Preferences->Advanced->Preferred browser->Check now->Yes
2. xdg-open  'http://www.google.co.uk/' (in KDE)
  
Actual results:
Konqueror

Expected results:
Firefox

Additional info:
Comment 1 Rex Dieter 2009-09-09 16:54:34 UTC 
This works for me:

to set preferred browser in kde,
systemsettings->default applications->web browser, 
in the following browser: firefox

xdg-open http://www.google.co.uk/

launched firefox.

Perhaps, firefox's Preferred browser->Check now->Yes preference doesn't do the right thing in kde, should be something equivalent to:

kwriteconfig --file kdeglobals --group General --key BrowserApplication '!firefox'
Comment 2 Bug Zapper 2009-11-16 12:07:48 UTC 
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 12 development cycle.
Changing version to '12'.

More information and reason for this action is here:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BugZappers/HouseKeeping
Comment 3 Robin Green 2010-08-20 11:55:52 UTC 
No longer an issue in Fedora 13, since this Firefox feature has disappeared.
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