I Gaslit KRunner Into Finding My Brave Bookmarks 0 ▲ Balint Korosi 28 minutes ago · Tech · hide · 0 comments I've been on Brave for a looong ass time and I love it. Same with KDE (I used to use Arch, btw, but now I just use Kubuntu). KRunner is the best thing in KDE. Alt+Space, three letters, enter, done. Except fucking bookmarks. KDE ships a KRunner plugin that searches your browser bookmarks. It's on by default. It has never once returned a result for me. No error, no warning, no "your browser isn't on the list". It just sits there giving me nothing, forever, and eventually I stopped trying. If I switched the default browser to Firefox, it would find those bookmarks. But I don't use FF. So after years of waiting for the upstream KDE patch, I looked, mangled stuff and the one string bug is workarounded. Why It Does Nothing The plugin works out which browser you use by grabbing the Exec line of whatever handles x-scheme-handler/http, then string-matching that against a list: firefox, opera, chromium, chrome, falkon. Brave's Exec line is /usr/bin/brave-browser-stable %U. Go on, find the… No comments yet. Log in to reply on the Fediverse. Comments will appear here.