[ILUG] KDE file associations, more evil than MS?

Mark Finlay linuxexpert at eircom.net
Fri Nov 9 15:06:09 GMT 2001


On Thursday 08 November 2001 5:08 pm, Paul Askins wrote:
> What?  Evil KDE is right.  Looks like you're stuck with konqu-whatever :(
>

Galeon(Gnome's Browser) is so much better than konqueror - and its based on 
mozilla.

If i open up more than about 10 konqueror windows, X gets reallllllly 
Slooooooowwwwww. but in Galeon each window opens multiple pages
like opera, and my system is nice and responsive. and you can turn of
popups. and it renders zdnet and other tables sites properly.


the list goes on and on, i wont bore you,

Mark


> On Thu, 8 Nov 2001 17:07:07 +0000
>
> Fergal Daly <fergal at esatclear.ie> wrote:
> > That's the string alright but the problem is that you can't type it in
> > anywhere!
> >
> > Fergal
> >
> > On Thursday 08 November 2001 16:39, Paul Askins wrote:
> > > To get an app to open the url in mozilla try
> > >
> > > mozilla -remote 'openURL(%s,raise)'
> > > this works for netscape, so it might work for moz too.
> > >
> > > This will use whatever mozilla instance is currently on top though,
>
> not a
>
> > > new window.  I don't think there is a way of getting it to open a new
> > > window.





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