Setting default browser?

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smaug42
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Setting default browser?

Post by smaug42 »

I'm running into a minor annoyance where I can't set the default browser for oXygen. (using oXygen 6.0 build 2005051612 on Linux and KDE 3.4.1)

I have been just letting oXygen pick a browser and it has been defaulting to Konqueror. That was good enough for me so I never bothered changing anything. I had to install Mozilla yesterday (for a different project). Now when I do a transform to do an HTML preview it's shown in Mozilla. I want ot change it back to Konqueror or even better, to Firefox (my preferred browser).

So I went to Options > Preferences > global > Default Internet Browser and set it to:
/usr/bin/firefox %u
Clicked Apply and OK.
I tried a transform... still showing in Mozilla. I restarted oXygen and tried a transform... still showing in Mozilla.

Mozilla is not set as the default browser in KDE - it's set to use Firefox.

Can't think of what else I need to do to convince oXygen to use Firefox... any suggestions?
smaug42
Posts: 44
Joined: Tue May 25, 2004 2:27 pm

Post by smaug42 »

Nevermind.... I took away the %u and it works. I should try everything before I post for help eh?

:-P
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