AZ Nomad <aznomad.3@PremoveOBthisOX.COM> wrote:
> Has any progress been made to integrate firefox with KDE?
>
> Two behaviors which I really dislike are:
>
> 1) firefox isn't desktop aware. The firefox launcher tries to reuse
> windows, but if the opened firefox is on another desktop, opening a
> URL causes a desktop switch to where the running firefox window is.
> I don't want to randomly switch desktops when I open a url.

I bet that the way it works is the preferred way for many people, who want
to keep their virtual desktop separate, and not get a notification from
their "games" VD displaying on their "work" VD.

Doesn't KDE have a setting switch for whether new windows are to open in the
same virtual desktop as the parent (if any), or in the active one?

Anyhow, there shouldn't be any integration with the desktop from the program
itself. You can run Mozilla (and most other X programs) remotely, and with
the display manager and window manager of your choice. "Your choice" being
the key words here. Not locked down to one or two choices.

> 2) firefox has drag'n'drop to the desktop, but the created icon, when
> launched don't open anything but a text window with the url inside.
> I have to cut'n'paste that back to the firefox address bar to
> actually open the page.

Seems to me like you have a problem with your file manager's magic parsing.
Check whether KDE or its file manager has its own magic file -- if not, add
an entry to ~/.magic.mime (or globally, to /usr/share/misc/file/magic.mime)
that identifies it, like:

0 string URL: application/x-url

You may have to change the application/x-url to something else if your file
manager expects something else. You may even have to add an entry for your
file manager to know what to do with files of this type. See your KDE
documentation.

Regards,
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*Art