[gentoo-user] KDE URL-handling weirdness

[gentoo-user] KDE URL-handling weirdness

[»Q«]

I suppose this started when I upgraded to KDE 4.9.5, but I just noticed
it today.

In KDE's system settings, I have Firefox set as the default web
browser.  It worked fine before now.  But now when I click on an
http: or https: URL in some other application, KDE downloads the page to
its local cache, then launches Firefox to open the local file.  So my
Firefox is opening a file such as
file:///var/tmp/kdecache-q/krun/8144_0_ 

I don't think I've changed any settings that should affect this, and I
don't know what to change to fix it.

[gentoo-user] Re: KDE URL-handling weirdness [solved]

[»Q«]

On Thu, 31 Jan 2013 12:41:07 -0600
»Q« <boxcars@gmx.net> wrote:

> I suppose this started when I upgraded to KDE 4.9.5, but I just
> noticed it today.
> 
> In KDE's system settings, I have Firefox set as the default web
> browser.  It worked fine before now.  But now when I click on an
> http: or https: URL in some other application, KDE downloads the page
> to its local cache, then launches Firefox to open the local file.  So
> my Firefox is opening a file such as
> file:///var/tmp/kdecache-q/krun/8144_0_ 
> 
> I don't think I've changed any settings that should affect this, and I
> don't know what to change to fix it.

Sorry for the noise -- I didn't do enough searching before posting
here.

I fixed it by changing the command in Firefox's .desktop file from
"firefox" to "firefox %u".