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I'm running OpenSuse Linux 11.2 with KDE4.3.4.
When I start either SABnzbd 0.5.0RC3 or 0.5.0Beta3 (which ran fine under
OpenSuse 10.3 and KDE3.5) my KDE taskbar fills up with as many as
100 instances of the Konqueror browser, although they do not show up
in a ps listing.  Killing SABnzbd with Ctrl-C does not stop the creation of
these things, but eventually an error box pops up and they start to disappear.

Is there any way to make SABnzbd NOT spawn any browser, but just wait for
a request from a browser?

Look in Config->General, there's an option for that.
Otherwise use the -b0 command line option.

Thanks!  I did RTFM and -b 0 seems to have fixed it.  I'm downloading stuff from
Usenet now.  Will try the config option.  Whew, it was scary there for a while!

  Mark

Hmm... in config/switches, the Launch Browser on Startup
box had not been checked!

I don't feel like messing with it -- I don't want my system to
seize up if the browser spawning gets more enthusiastic for some reason.

I'll just stay with the -b 0 option, which seems to be a good fix.
It's likely the problem has something to do with KDE4, since
SABnzbd worked fine under KDE3.5.

The Usenet download came in fine!  SABnzbd is a great program!

Thanks!

SABnzbd doesn't really deal with KDE.
All it does is tell the operating system to launch the user's favorite browser.
We use Python's built-in "webbrowser" module to do this.