Setting your preferred web browser

When you click on a highlighted URL anywhere in Konversation, it will launch the default KDE application associated with the MIME type of the URL. For example, when clicking on a URL beginning with http, Konqueror is launched to display the web page. You can specify an application different from the KDE default. For example, you can use Mozilla instead.

To choose a different web browser, choose Settings->Configure Konversation on the main menu. The Edit Preferences screen will appear.

	Click here to display the Web Browser screen.
	Click here to specify that you want to use a custom web browser.
	Enter the command to launch your desired web browser. When you click on a URL `%u` will be replaced with the URL.

Tip: (UNIX® systems only) The default command is mozilla '%u', which will start a new instance of Mozilla each time you click on a URL. If you prefer that Mozilla display the web page in a new tab of an already-running instance, create a file containing the following:

#!/bin/sh
mozilla -remote "openURL($@, new-tab)" || exec mozilla "$@";

Name the file moz, place it in the PATH, and make it executable (chmod a+x moz). Then enter moz '%u' for the web browser command in the screen above.

Note: The Web Browser setting does not apply to mailto: URLs. mailto: URLs always launch the default KDE mailer.

Click Apply to save your changes. You must reconnect to each server and channel for the changes to take effect. The easiest way to do this is to quit and restart Konversation.