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Running Mandrake 8.0 with KDE 2.1.1 and Konqueror 2.1.1 and Kmail 1.2
(all standard with the M8.0 power relase)
When I click in a URL in an email on kmail, it starts Konqueror to
view the URL.
1) I want to use Netscape or Opera as my default instead, but can't
find where to change the default
2) Konqueror frequently crashes under the following conditions, which
is why I want to make the change:
I have ads.doubleclick.net (and a couple of varients) resolved in my
/etc/hosts file to 127.0.0.1 to both speed up downloads and more
importantly to protest their previously announced intentions to
harvest personal information from people browsing pages which include
doubleclick banner ads.
Konqueror sometimes reacts to the inability to find the appropriate
doubleclick banner(s) by giving me one or more error popup boxes.
On a fair number of occasions when dealing with these intentional
errors, Konqueror crashes, with the following info showing in the
SIGSEGV (signal 11) crash handler. I've yet to get these on pages
that dont have these error boxes popping up, and the offending class
in the trace is a red flag, which is why I suspect the connection:
0x40e831d9 in wait4 () from /lib/libc.so.6
#0 0x40e831d9 in wait4 () from /lib/libc.so.6
#1 0x40ef2f2c in __check_rhosts_file () from /lib/libc.so.6
#2 0x4061f5a8 in KCrash::defaultCrashHandler () from
/usr/lib/libkdecore.so.3
#3 0x4100b0fe in pthread_sighandler (signo=11, ctx=
{gs = 0, __gsh = 0, fs = 0, __fsh = 0, es = 43, __esh = 0, ds =
43, __dsh = 0, edi = 3221222048, esi = 0, ebp = 137306532, esp =
3221222012, ebx = 1086195540, edx = 3221222256, ecx = 1, eax =
1090532352, trapno = 14, err = 4, eip = 1919311730, cs = 35, __csh =
0, eflags = 66198, esp_at_signal = 3221222012, ss = 43, __ssh = 0,
fpstate = 0xbffff000, oldmask = 2147483648, cr2 = 1919311730})
at signals.c:97
#4 0x40df7b68 in killpg () from /lib/libc.so.6
#5 0x69007400 in ?? ()
= = =
<WORKAROUND>I've seen suggestions elsewhere that resolving to 0.0.0.0
instead of 127.0.0.1 to block obnoxious banner ads yields cleaner
results. Opinions?</WORKAROUND>
I dug thru the KDE bug reports database to see what I can find on the
topic, found none, and got told that the version of KDE released with
Mandrake 8.0 is too old for me to report bugs. Interesting. Have to
see if upgrading buys me anything.
- --
"What is this talk of software 'releases'? Klingons do not
'release' software; our software ESCAPES, leaving a bloody
trail of designers and quality assurance people in its wake!"
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