firefox has no integration with apps on the downloader

[liamdawe]

Something that needs work done is the download box for firefox that seems to have no idea what apps are for what.

Anything you download you double click, open with opens with nothing populated in it, leading you to have to manually find the bins for each app you want to use.

Anyone else find this annoying? It seems to have no idea about default apps in kde?

[claydoh]

Yes firefox does not care one bit about KDE. The fast pace of Firefox updates has made Ubuntu decide to stop developing the modifications that allowed for this integration as it would often be broken. If you search the forum for firefox kde integration, you will find plenty of infos on this, including a third party build of firefox that fixes this.

[liamdawe]

Does chrome suffer the same issues?

[claydoh]

no, chrome/chromium is rather agnostic. Firefox has always needed something to define the default applications, and usually I think it has been the distro that defines this - and as FF is rather gtk-centric, and our FF package is from Ubuntu, well you can see why. Chrome/chromium use the desktop standards for determining what to use, while Mozilla's browser does not.

[Xplorer4x4]

https://launchpad.net/~blue-shell/+archive/firefox-kde
Follow the directions and you will have a pretty nicely integrated firefox, but I find it helps to apply themes(not personas) to help blur the UI parts that will not take on your KDE theme.

[buzzmandt]

I quit using firefox for this very reason, tried rekonq and really like it but it's not quite there yet. now using google chrome. it integrates very well with kde without having to 'work' on it first.

[Xplorer4x4]

With firefox-kde all you need is a theme. Personally I don't find a theme to be work as I like everything to be themed anyways and prefer the firefox theme over just inheriting the KDE theme.

[liamdawe]

Switched to chrome

[pauly]

I use this theme with firefox. Windows version. you will need checkcompatabilty addon to use.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/foxdie/

I think chrome looks like **** on linux.

[SteveRiley]

Oxygen KDE for Firefox.

http://oxygenkde.altervista.org/

[wrender]

Is 12.10 shipping with the blue shell Firefox or will people still have to manually choose it themselves?

[claydoh]

Is 12.10 shipping with the blue shell Firefox or will people still have to manually choose it themselves?

It has to be done via a ppa repository as there is already a firefox package in the standard Ubuntu repositories, which Kubuntu uses. These integration bits are more than just additions or addons to the browser, they require a recompilation of the source code.

[wrender]

I don't understand. Ubuntu ships with many things that Kubuntu does not. How is this any different? Kubuntu developers package the release to point at what ever software they choose don't they?

[HalationEffect]

I don't understand. Ubuntu ships with many things that Kubuntu does not. How is this any different? Kubuntu developers package the release to point at what ever software they choose don't they?

When you say "ships", do you mean on the install disk images that you can download?

If so, then I don't think any version of Firefox is included, as I believe that KDE's default web browser Rekonq is the browser package included in the disk images.

[claydoh]

I don't understand. Ubuntu ships with many things that Kubuntu does not. How is this any different? Kubuntu developers package the release to point at what ever software they choose don't they?

We share the same repositories with Ubuntu, et al, so the firefox package needs to be the same. The reason we lost the integration in the first place is the fact that FF moved to a much more rapid release schedule, so there was extra work for the Ubuntu Firefox packaging team as they had to find out what KDE bits broke for each FF release, and fix them every few weeks. Yes, KDE is not important to them. Which is understandable. It is also as much partly Mozilla's fault for not using the official linux XDG standards for opening default applications, which would remove this issue entirely.

Look here for a way to fix this
http://alien.slackbook.org/blog/make...nloaded-files/