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I don't know if I am alone with this problem, but if I click on a link in KMail, Konqueror tries to open but slows the system to a crawl while the little Konqueror cursor bounces up and down forever.

To fix this, I must pop into my terminal and killall kfmclient (there are many incidents of kfmclient trying to openURL - more every minute! They all look identical:

The killall solution is simple for me, but I am building KDE-based systems for my clients and this kind of thing is a show-stopper.

I don't think I have anything unusual setup for my browser. Konqueror is my default browser. It turns out that this is not just KMail - all programs that fire up my browser cause the same glitch.

When I check my associations, I check under "text" for "html" and this is what is there: Is this the same as everyone else has for Konqueror?

Very odd then.

I am using KDE 3.4.1 on Gentoo 2.6-r12.

This is really the only problem I am experiencing and it's making me nuts.

I have, however confirmed that it is not a problem with the softare, it's something in my configuration. I have 4 machines running in my office, all identically installed, and only this one is displaying this behaviour.

Grrrrr....

Got it.

Created a new user on the same machine. New user had no problem opening links from other apps. So the problem is in my config for MY user.

I STILL don't know where everything is in KDE. I believe that this is my only complaint about KDE - I cannot intuit where settings are made.

Anywho... under Settings->KDE Components->Component Chooser, I checked out the "Web Browser" listitem. Once I saw it, I recalled that long ago I was using FireFox as my default browser but had changed it back to Konqueror as I became more accustomed to "the KDE way".

Now, you'd THINK that to change it back to Konqueror one would simply click on the little file-chooser button and browse to the "Konqueror" program. And this is what I did. AND this is where the "kfmclient" comes from - that's the name of the Konqueror program.

BUT THIS IS THE WRONG WAY!

There are two radio buttons available in the "Default Component" section under the heading "Open HTTP and HTTPS URLs:

• in an application based on the contents of the URL
  
• in the following browser: (this is where I had chosen kfmclient)
  

So who on Earth would guess that the correct choice is "in an application based on the contents of the URL"? (grin)

My problem is solved. And I know a bit more about KDE now too.

Thanks for your help anda_skoa.

frozenJim