Arrrgh! What was an intermittent problem has ramped up to a persistent one, and I’ve no idea why, nor how to fix it.
I use Swiftfox as my web browser, because that was the easiest way to get Flash enabled on my machine. When I’m working on web pages, I like to preview them in it so that I can spot errors more easily, etc. I have been using Bluefish for html editing, and also Kate sometimes. I used to be able to (intermittently) use the relevant menu selections in each to preview my document in Swiftfox, but that has completely stopped working. When I browse Krusader, and select “open with Swiftfox”, that also fails now. What does happen when I try any of these actions is this: Swiftfox opens a new window, containing a tab that goes to my home page. And that’s it.
Anybody got some ideas on how to fix this? Or work around it? (I’ve never tried to open a local document from a browser’s address pane. Guess it’s time I learned how.) Thanks in advance for any ideas contributed!
Why Doesn’t Swiftfox Open??
Try starting swiftfox from a
Try starting swiftfox from a command line to see if it throws an error.
No joy
Thanks, gents, for your suggestions.
EotS, Swiftfox opens with no problem from the command line.
Presto, the “%u” was not there, but adding it (and restarting) has made no difference. But, since you pointed out the easy way to open a file (I am so embarrassed that I didn’t recognize that!), it’s not that important.
Funny how certain computer habits become so ingrained that they can blind one to other ways of accomplishing a task.
Following up ...
I certainly don’t know either, but as long as I can accomplish what I need to, I’m good. I have a lot of updating—or maybe a move to Feisty Fawn, I dunno—to do, so it’s possible the problem will resolve itself in that process. Thanks again for your help!
Check this...
It sounds like swiftfox is not being passed the argument for the file you want. Open Konqueror, than open go to /usr/share/applications . Right-click on swiftfox.desktop . Click Actions, then edit as root. Enter your password. When Kate opens, look for a line that should look like this:
That %u is important. If it's not there, add it, then save. If it is there, then something else is wrong. Let me know, then maybe I can help you further.
BTW, to open a local file in firefox/swiftfox, just click File, then Open File, and browse for the file you want. Pretty easy.