Firefox not opening external applications

[Paul Lemmons]

Paul Lemmons wrote:
> I did not know who to reply to so I am replying to myself to include 
> everybody...
>
> I tried firefox-3.5-kde.... no joy
> I tried okular from command line... work like it should
> I tried okular from firefox ... no joy
> I tried firefox --safe-mode ... no joy
>
> Any other thoughts?
>
>   
I just removed my .mozilla directory and tried it again... no joy

This is really annoying...