I'm running Mandrake 10.0 with KDE 3.4. I have changed the file association to launch Firefox for HTML files. If I click on the * button, then Run Command... and type in www.yahoo.com, it copies yahoo to the kdecache, and displays it from there (file://var/tmp/kdecache-rseiden/krun/1823). If I type www.yahoo.com in the address bar of Firefox, it displays as it should.

If I right click on the desktop and create a new URL "shortcut", when I start it, it loads Firefox, but tries to load the cached version of the url.

In otherwords, if I create a shortcut for http://localhost/phpMyAdmin, it will try to go to file://var/tmp/kdecache-rseiden/krun/1795.0.phpMyAdmin.

How can I make it so Firefox loads the web page I type into the Run Command... dialog without having to type /usr/local/bin/firefox/firefox www.yahoo.com ????

Thanks

I'm having a very similar problem. When I click on a link from KMail, Firefox grabs the page, puts it in kdecache and then shows me the page from kdecache (file:///tmp blah blah blah..). WHAT'S THE DEAL?!?!? It didn't used to do this?

Any help would be great!

Chris

You may want to check the Advanced >> Cache options and make sure it has compare to network every time checked. This will force the page to re-load from the network not cache.

KC

OK, checked my Firefox -> Preferences -> Advanced section, there doesn't appear to be anything about caching. I also checked the Proxy section, and proxy is NOT enabled. I also tried setting -> Preferences -> Privacy "cache" size to 0 and cleared the cache. But links from Kmail still don't get me directly to the website.

On the KDE side of the house, I tried disabling cache from the Control Center -> Internet & Network -> Web Browser -> Cache. I didn't really expect that to work anyway since I figured that controls Konqueror only.

On the KMail side of the house -- I couldn't find any setting related to this. However, there was a note in the FAQ that points users to the File Association controls in Control Center (that was nice).

It seems that the problem could happen at any point in the chain from "click" to "view". I don't think it's Firefox and here's why. When I type
firefox "http://www.yahoo.com"
at the command line, my existing firefox window spawns another tab and opens the page just like it's supposed to (as dictated in my Firefox preferences). When I click from Kmail it loads a cached page IN THE CURRENT TAB (like it's NOT supposed to). I think Firefox is being told by KDE to point at a cached page (a page that it --KDE-- cahced right after I clicked on the link in Kmail and before Firefox is told anything). But that's just my guess.

Any ideas?

Well, the answer, as usual, is in the little details. This will fix rickseiden's problem as well.

In the File Associations control (Control Center -> KDE Components -> File Associations) when you go to text->html to link html files to Firefox, your "Execute->Command" should say something like "/usr/local/bin/firefox/firefox %u". If you've left off the %u then KDE doesn't know to pass Firefox the URL directly, thus does the caching bit... THAT'S IT!!

I tested it on my SuSE box at home but not my FreeBSD box at work. I have no doubt it'll work though since I duplicated the exact problem here at home. I even duplicated rickseiden's scenario with the Run Command.

Chris