How do I use Firefox with Dolphin?

[dibl]

Re: How do I use Firefox with Dolphin?

On your original post, click the "edit" button, then add "SOLVED" in the title, in front.

[ga_acad]

Re: How do I use Firefox with Dolphin?

Great forum! I was struggling with firefox on kubuntu 8.10 and was thinking if I made a mistake tinkering with linux instead of sticking to WinXP (its little things like this that bug me about linux ... but I'm slowly getting the confidence that with people like you all around .. life may not be too bad in linux world).

Any way ... long story short ... after reading the above posts, I got my firefox download window to work with the "open containing folder".

cheers!

[Guest]

Re: How do I use Firefox with Dolphin?

My system:
Kubuntu 9.04 - AMD64 "Jaunty Jackalope"
KDE 4.2.2
FireFox 3.0.10

First, thanks to wkdboi for the great info that led me to what I needed to fix my system. I had to alter the instructions, but not much. I'm posting the amendment for other's assistance.

A problem users might have with wkdboi's fix:
You may not see a 'file' entry listed in Firefox's Edit -> Preferences -> Applications, which was the problem I had when trying to use the the fix. I needed to find out how to *add* the type, not just edit it, and there wasn't any add option in the applications tab. If this is your problem, the fix below should help, but you'll still need to figure out where Dolphin is on your system (I opened dolphin and searched for dolphin under file:///usr)

My fix:
Instead of preferences, I went to the download tab (Tools ->Downloads). If you don't have anything in your download list, download and save a file, because you need to be able to right click on one in the list. Right click on a file in the list and select 'Open Containing Folder'. From the new window, select "Choose". A browser opens for you to finally enter the path to dolphin, which might be file:///usr/bin/dolphin, if you have a setup like mine.

Essentially, it's the same principle as wkdboi's fix, except that it allows you to create the entry for 'file' if it doesn't exist. Other situations where you need to add a new entry to the list might also be solved with a similar method.

@Chopstick - On a side note, I think the x11 directory you mentioned is just some kind of weird shortcut/pointer type thing that points to the usr/bin folder itself. Please excuse my Linux ignorance (?linignorance?), as this is only day 3 of my Linux experience. If you click on it, you get to usr/bin/x11 with all the same files in it as usr/bin, along with a new x11. I drilled down into it repeatedly and it just kept going. I'm pretty sure these are just some kind of pseudo-folders. If you click on the properties of x11, you'll see that it says 'points at: ." or something like that, with the dot indicating it just points at the folder it's in. Anyway, the point is that your Dolphin is probably actually in usr/bin, like mine, but that you can use usr/bin/x11 to get to it, also, or even usr/bin/x11/x11/x11/x11/x11/x11.

[Tecumseh]

Re: How do I use Firefox with Dolphin?

Would it be possible to create a package that installs these file preferences for kde? But also make other packages for xfce and gnome users (if needed)

[undoIT]

Re: How do I use Firefox with Dolphin?

Would it be possible to create a package that installs these file preferences for kde? But also make other packages for xfce and gnome users (if needed)

Yes. It is a shame that both Firefox and Thunderbird do not integrate as smoothly in KDE as Gnome. This is the kind of thing that would really be a turn off for first time Linux users. If it is not too difficult, a package that sets such preferences for Firefix and ThunderBird should be included with Kubuntu to make things more user friendly (btw, the Firefox installer for Kubuntu Karmic is a nice step in the right direction).

I didn't have an entry for "file" in Edit>Preferences>Applications. To get this working, I browsed to dolphin /usr/bin/X11/dolphin after Firefox gave the prompt upon selecting "Open Containing Folder" and that added the correct entry for "file" in the applications tab.

[leonk5]

It's year 2014 and still this problem. I have tried all these fixes but can't get it to work, firefox 32 (it says firefox cor canonical in about). When I tried above 'open containing folder' it goes straight to nautilus file manage. I have tried file association inode there is no entry for file. I have change both /usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache and /usr/share/applications/defaults.list but still no good. Imagine that. I wonder could it be mozplugger and if so how do I configure mozplugger?

[leonk5]

I have got it working by purging nautilus. Firefox 32 (I think it says mozilla firefox for ubuntu canonical - 1.0) now opens dolphin. However, that's not a solution is it if it means I can not install nautilus. Is there a firefox for the kde desktop.

[jlittle]

Is there a firefox for the kde desktop.

There is indeed, and surprisingly (to me) hard (for me) to find the details. I think there should be a sticky in the "How-To's" forum for this. Blue Shell, the main sponsor of Kubuntu, have a PPA. Many of us here, I'd guess, use this; the KDE dolphin-like file dialogs look better and are more functional than the GTK ones.

Here's my understanding of what's needed.

It's important to note that the Blue Shell version will lag a new release from Mozilla by a few days, and if that new release fixed a security hole, the bad guys can see that (mozilla will document the fix) and the PPA version will be vulnerable for those days.

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:blue-shell/firefox-kde
echo -e 'Package: *' | sudo tee /etc/apt/preferences.d/blue-shell-firefox > /dev/null
echo -e 'Pin: release o=LP-PPA-blue-shell-firefox-kde' | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/preferences.d/blue-shell-firefox > /dev/null
echo -e 'Pin-Priority: 1000' | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/preferences.d/blue-shell-firefox > /dev/null
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends firefox firefox-kde-support

Change that 1000 to 1001, I've been told, if you want to force a downgrade to get the KDE integration. Repeat the above after a release upgrade, because release upgrades disable PPAs.

[leonk5]

thanks did that and works. I get 2 extensions it seems, ubuntu firefox modifications and oxygen kde options. To me firefox seems snappier. However pity we have to do this its hard to remember. It would be great if kubuntu would have a app like fedora's autoten or easylife to automatically do all the things after installing.

[Guest]

Thanks you, I was also interested by this !