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Bug 650367 - KDE 4.5.2 update breaks mailto links in firefox, chromium-browser, konqueror
Summary: KDE 4.5.2 update breaks mailto links in firefox, chromium-browser, konqueror
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: kdelibs
Version: 13
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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high
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Assignee: Than Ngo
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks: kde-4.5
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2010-11-05 23:09 UTC by Ville Skyttä
Modified: 2010-12-09 22:11 UTC (History)
9 users (show)

Fixed In Version: 4.5.3-1
Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2010-12-09 22:11:14 UTC
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Description Ville Skyttä 2010-11-05 23:09:59 UTC 
After today's KDE 4.5.2 update (not sure which component is to blame), mailto links no longer worked in firefox or chromium-browser.  I use kmail for mail.

firefox did nothing (not even an error message) when clicking a mailto link.  I was able to fix it by installing gnome-control-center and setting the GNOME preferred mail client to kmail.  I'm fairly certain that those links used to work just fine before this update, but not completely sure as I use firefox quite rarely these days on this box.

I haven't been able to get mailto links working again in chromium-browser, and I use it a lot more than firefox so this is quite annoying.  It displays an error dialog when clicking such a link saying

| Could not start process Unable to create io-slave:
| klauncher said: Error loading 'kmailservice %u'.
Comment 1 Rex Dieter 2010-11-17 14:33:53 UTC 
Re: chromium:  hmm... kmailservice is part of kdelibs3 , not sure how/why that is being envoked here.
Comment 2 Ville Skyttä 2010-11-17 22:47:07 UTC 
FWIW,

$ rpm -qf /usr/libexec/kde4/kmailservice 
kdelibs-4.5.2-8.fc13.x86_64

$ rpm -q kdelibs3
package kdelibs3 is not installed
Comment 3 Ville Skyttä 2010-11-17 22:53:16 UTC 
BTW mailto links are also broken in konqueror just like they're in chromium, the error dialog boxes are exactly the same.
Comment 4 Ville Skyttä 2010-12-09 22:11:14 UTC 
I can no longer reproduce this so I suppose it was fixed in 4.5.3-1.
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