On Friday 26 Sep 2003 10:00 am, Lance Cummings wrote: > Does this (not) work for anyone else? > > 1) Open your mail client (hopefully KMail so we can test this > properly). > > 2) Copy the URL for the MS critic article to the clipboard. > > 3) Now open Mozilla and try to paste this clipboard item into the > Mozilla address window. > > Doesn't work for me -- repeatedly. 'Paste' is not even available in > Mozilla in this case (grayed out). Have no idea here if the problem > is KMail or Mozilla, or something else. > > Double clicking on the URL launches Konqueror of course, and I'd love > to change that to Mozilla if anyone will share the trick. Konqueror > promptly launched a pop up ad from that MSNBC site, something I > don't have to see in Windows since I have them all blocked. (Also, > Konqueror seems much less 'finished' than Mozilla, and seems to have > real trouble with some pages that Mozilla handles easily). I > understand Mozilla has a built in popup blocker, so I want to use it > for that and other reasons. >
Copy/Paste --------------- Copy /paste using the 'Edit' menu does not necessarily work between applications that use different toolkits ie kmail and mozilla. But the method of copy/paste that works everywhere in Linux is 'highlight' with mouse/ click mouse wheel. Once you get used to it Windows will seem clumsy by comparison. Default Actions ------------------- To change default actions in KDE open the KDE ControlCentre>Components>ComponentsChooser To change the default application to handle a file type KDEControlCentre>DileAssociations search for the file type you want to change and put your favourite app at the top of the list. PoP ups ------------ In Mozilla/Firebird/Opera there are options to suppress pop ups or open them in background. Not sure about Konqueror. In any case I get rid of pop ups by using 'privoxy' (It is in the 'contrib' folder on any Mandrake mirror) With privoxy installed point your browsers to port 8118 Privoxy will block pop ups and adverts configurable per site. It is *very* good www.privoxy.org derek -- ---------------------------------- www.jennings.homelinux.net http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org
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