[KLUG Members] External Program Settings in OpenOffice

[Eric Beversluis]

On Tue, 2005-09-06 at 23:44 -0400, Green Proc wrote:
> 
> Eric Beversluis wrote:
> > I'm trying to get OpenOffice to open links in OO documents in Firefox.
> > I've gone to the External Programs page and typed 'firefox' and then
> > 'Firefox' into the textbox for HTML links. When I try then to open a
> > link in an OO document I get this error message:
> > 
> > "An error occurred in starting the web browser. Please check the
> > OpenOffice.org settings under 'Tools-Options-OpenOffice.org-External
> > Programs' and the settings for your web browser.'"
> 
> Have you tried typing the full path to firefox, as opposed to just 
> 'firefox' ?  In other words try '/usr/bin/firefox' or whatever is 
> appropriate for your system.

That seemed to do it. 
Turns out firefox is at \home\ericb\firefox-installer\firefox.

Which presumably is not in my PATH environment variable. Maybe OO would
have found it if it had been in a reasonable place?

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