First, my normal user doesn't have a .kde3 dir, the konversationrc is in .kde. So I made the change there (after undoing my settings change above) and clicking on a link opened Firefox. I removed Firefox and then clicking on a link opened KImageEditor.
So you're change is, I think, part of the answer, but somehow this system also needs to get taught that Konqueror is a web browser or some such.
Looked at the proposed patch ...
First, my normal user doesn't have a .kde3 dir, the konversationrc is in .kde. So I made the change there (after undoing my settings change above) and clicking on a link opened Firefox. I removed Firefox and then clicking on a link opened KImageEditor.
So you're change is, I think, part of the answer, but somehow this system also needs to get taught that Konqueror is a web browser or some such.