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I have FireFox as my desktop's default browser (Ubuntu/Gnome 9.10) and most applications open links into FF readily enough, including Choqok (a KDE twitter client).

But Kopete insists on opening Konqueror - which is annoying as it takes an age to load, while FF is almost always open an simply needs a new tab.

I've checked though the preferences of Kopete, and can't seem to find anything to make it use FF.

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You can use KDE's "System Settings" tool by launching systemsettings or find it on your menu. Then under Default Applications you'll find a Web Browser option.

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Edit ~/.kde/share/config/kdeglobals and alter the line with BrowserApplication[$e] to read:

BrowserApplication[$e]=!firefox

That should do it, and this assumes you are using KDE4.

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hi - i'm running Kopete on Gnome... – HorusKol Feb 23 '10 at 23:40
Right, but Kopete will still need a base KDE install to run so that file should exist for you, even if you don't have systemsettings. Your config dir might be ~/.kde4 also. – SleighBoy Feb 24 '10 at 20:17
this is going to sound strange - but i think i did it... and i think i did it following your instructions. but that was a couple of weeks ago, and now i can't find how i did it or where it is set... – HorusKol Mar 25 '10 at 6:29
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A kind of SleighBoy's solution works for me under 10.04 LTS. I had the same problem (wanted to open chrome instead FF). I added lines

[General]
BrowserApplication=google-chrome

at the end of kdeglobals and it worked

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