Opening links from inside Kontact

[tarahmarie]

Hi, all:

I can't seem to open firefox links from inside Kontact. When someone sends me an email that I'm reading in KMail, I click on it, and I get a bouncing icon, but firefox never actually opens. It's holding me back from using RSS Akregator. Any ideas?

[tarahmarie]

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[tarahmarie]

This seems to be something that is a matter of settings. Is it a serious problem? A bug?

[little_penguin]

This happened to me when I deinstalled Firefox 3 and reverted back to Firefox 2.

the following workaround might not be the official fix but it seems to do the trick.

Solution: Create a Symbolic Link to the Firefox binary

Assuming you're using Firefox 2:

sudo ln -s /usr/bin/firefox-2 /usr/bin/firefox

Or if you're using Firefox 3, it would be

sudo ln -s /usr/bin/firefox-3 /usr/bin/firefox

Hope it works for you.

[tarahmarie]

Well, I no longer get a bouncing icon of nothingness; instead, Kontact tries to open Quanta instead of Firefox. What do I do?

[little_penguin]

Sorry, I've really no idea about that, but it sounds like some links are screwed up somewhere.
Since this thread is older, not many people will be looking at it, so I suggest you open up a new thread called "Help: Links in Kontact (kmail) trying to open Quanta instead of Firefox" or something similar, to catch attention and hopefully someone can help.

Good luck!