Hi: fc10 x86_64 running kde 4.3 from updates. I used to have Firefox as default browser. Now web links from Thunderbird always get Konq. Within Firefox, Preferences > Advanced > System Defaults says that Firefox is already my default browser. Settings > Preferred Applications > Web Browser can be set to Firefox, but gets reset to 'Custom' with all the options greyed out and the Command shown as '/usr/lib64/firefox-3.0.13/firefox "%s"' I haven't tried the script given here http://userbase.kde.org/Tutorials/Modify_KDE_defaults which seems to be intended for cases in which the System Settings route is inconvenient and looks like overkill for my case as a sole user. Any suggestions appreciated.

Anne Wilson wrote: > On Saturday 05 September 2009 12:57:19 John Pilkington wrote: >> Hi: fc10 x86_64 running kde 4.3 from updates. >> >> I used to have Firefox as default browser. Now web links from >> Thunderbird always get Konq. >> >> Within Firefox, Preferences > Advanced > System Defaults says that >> Firefox is already my default browser. >> >> Settings > Preferred Applications > Web Browser can be set to Firefox, >> but gets reset to 'Custom' with all the options greyed out and the >> Command shown as '/usr/lib64/firefox-3.0.13/firefox "%s"' >> >> I haven't tried the script given here >> >> http://userbase.kde.org/Tutorials/Modify_KDE_defaults >> >> which seems to be intended for cases in which the System Settings route >> is inconvenient and looks like overkill for my case as a sole user. >> >> Any suggestions appreciated. >> > In the systemsettings dialogue, setting the browser to '/usr/bin/firefox' > works for me. > > Anne > > Yes, thanks. That does appear to have done the trick; I've selected /usr/bin/thunderbird as email client there too - ie, in Settings > System Settings > Default Applications. I notice that the Settings > Preferred Applications window, if activated twice, is labelled 'Gnome-default-applications-properties' and so could well be inappropriate, but it does seem a pity that so many apparently but not functionally equivalent procedures coexist.