[ooo-build] How to set default Internet browser in OOo

[Petr Mladek]

On Monday 20 July 2009, espinosa_cz wrote:
> Hi guys,
> One more question for today. How to set default internet browser - a
> HTTP client - to be used by OOo.
> When I click on URL link in text in Writer the page always opens in
> Konqueror despite my default browser is Firefox.

My OOo uses firefox on openSUSE-11.1 with KDE3.

> I have set my system (KDE 3.5.10, Mandriva 2009.1) correctly, html is
> associated to Firefox even 'xdg-open http://go-oo.org' opens Firefox.
> In UI, in Options, strangely there is option to select email client but
> not browser, the HTTP client. Why?
> I have ooo KDE integration installed but anyway it always should honor
> what is set in my system.
> So please what is the secret place where I can set this?

OOo calls "kde-open" here. It is defined by the environment variable 
DESKTOP_LAUNCH. It seems that kde-open calls kfmclient for html:// pages, ...

I am not sure how it is set on your system.


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Best Regards,

Petr Mladek
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