Hey.

I'm using Kontact on Kubuntu 10.04 (Beta2).

The problem is that every time I click a link, so that it opens in an external browser, the link that it opens is a cached version of the website at the URL I am opening, rather than the URL itself.

The URI it opens reads something like:
- file:///var/tmp/kdecache-atli/krun/13279.0.886290-website-title

This applies to both the Mail (Kmail) and Feeds (Akregator) part of the application. I've gone through all the settings and nothing I do seems to have any effect.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,
- Atli

Ok, so I found a workaround that allows me to open links correctly in Firefox.

For the Feed, I set the External Browser command int the Browser tab of the Akregator configuration to: firefox %u

The Kmail config doesn't seem to have anything like that, and it just uses the system default browser. So, to get Kmail working I set the default system browser to the same as above. This, however, does not work correctly; it opens two tabs in a new window, rather than a new tab in the currently open window.

To fix that problem, I open one link from Kmail, which triggers the unwanted behavior. Then I re-configure the system default and remove the %u. After that Kmail also works correctly.

I'm still hoping somebody knows how to simply turn of the caching thing.

This is because KDE is not aware that Firefox has support for non-local data, which is caused by its file association.

Open System Settings > Advanced > File Assocations, find "text/html", select Firefox. Edit it and make sure the command to run is "firefox %u" or "firefox %U" and not "firefox %f" or something similar.

Ahh ok, I see.
Thanks, that did it.

It's odd, though, because this wasn't specific to just Firefox. This happened in all the browsers I had installed (Fx, Chrome, Konqueror, Opera), but once I updated Fx, the others were all fixed in the process.
But then again, I may well have messed it up myself in the first place. I can't resist messing with every config window I come across

Thanks again!