Firefox 2x unable to click open htm/html files with spaces in name

Hi folks,
I am a relatively new user of Linux and have used openSuSe 10.2 since
December last year, mainly for learning and getting the feel for the OS.

I am now trying to slowly switch over to using Suse 10.2 for Web
browsing and thus have come across this following, IMHO, bug:

I make Firefox 2 my default browser and when I click on a downloaded
or saved file on my desktop or in a documents folder, it will not open
it if it has a space in the name (eg my links.html). If Firefox is
already running and I go through the ff file menu to open it, no problem
- it opens it.

NB: This is the message from Firefox:
"File not found
Firefox can't find the file at /home/peter1/Desktop/My."

Just to prove that it is not anything to do with me mucking up
the system, I just re-installed a fresh suse 10.2 KDE base install on a
spare partition and the same problem exists there too.

Conclusion: I am pretty sure its a bug but since I am no expert, I seek
the opinion and advice from others who are expert and/or more experienced.


I am using KDE desktop and have the latest Firefox version on my first
installation. The test install Firefox is the version that came on the
DVD iso.

Thanks in advance for any help in rectifying this problem.

Regards,
Peter

PS: I have tried searching for a solution to this via google but no luck
so far.
.

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