Aha - you nailed it on the head. The person who built the document used an internal file:// refernce, nd the inaccurate message popped up. When I added a second link with the correct web URL it worked fine (though strangely enough I could find no menu choice to allow editing the URL that was previously there!)
On 3/10/16 12:08 AM, Stephan Bergmann wrote: > On 03/10/2016 01:28 AM, Marc Grober wrote: >> Clicking on a live link in a LO 5.1 Presentation results in the >> following error message: >> >> "LibreOffice could not find a web browser on your system. Please check >> your Desktop Preferences or install a web browser (for example, Firefox) >> in the default location requested during the browser installation." >> >> In fact Firefox is set as default and doing a command click on a link >> from Writer works fine. > > From looking at the code (shell/source/unix/exec/shellexec.cxx, > sfx2/source/appl/openuriexternally.cxx) that error message can > misleadingly be presented also when a browser /is/ found, but > something else goes wrong when trying to open the hyperlink with the > browser. > > Marc, what is the hyerlink's exact URL? (In Impress, select the > hyperlink---which is easier to do with the keyboard than with the > mouse---, select "Insert > Hyperlink," and from the dialog that pops > open copy the content of the "Target" field. Alternatively, you can > mail me the presentation file, and I'll have a look.) -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
