(Note: Please be patient with me as I still know next to nothing about Linux)

I prefer KDE, but I also like Firefox. Firefox is what got me interested in open-source in the first place. The problem is that Firefox is a GNOME application, and is designed to run in GNOME. Most of the side-effects of this (such as non-standard menus, different dialogue boxes, etc), I don't mind. In fact, there's really only one thing that bothers me, and that that Firefox wants to open everything in what GNOME is set to open it in.

This means that I must manually open all downloaded files in order to use them. Normally, I could do this without a great deal of additional hassle by right-clicking the download and selecting "Open Containing Folder", however, this opens the folder in Nautilus.

In order to get the file associations to work I had to give up and use Konqueror, but I didn't like working with Konqueror's limited feature set, and I quickly became frusterated with it, especially on pages with a great deal of ads, which I had no adblock for.

I then decided I would rather not have KDE than not have Firefox, so I switched to GNOME, however, I am now growing tired of GNOME. No offense, but I don't think it's as stable as it tends to open tiny windows for system tray applications, causing me to have to terminate them, and about 10% of the time it starts up, nautilus crashes. I don't like being unable to modify the applications menu, and I need to be able to set HTML pages as wallpaper for various reasons, something that I cannot do with GNOME, at least, not to my knowledge.

I managed to fix the file extensions by booting into GNOME and setting them to what I wanted in KDE. This made GNOME unusable, but with this, I wouldn't need it.

This has successfully enabled me to get Firefox to recognize file types, but I have one problem left. Firefox is still performing the "Open Containing Folder" command in Nautilus. I have an idea on how to fix it, but I need some help from an experienced Linux user.

I noticed that the "bin" folder contains various scripts for launching applications. I figured that Firefox must be using this in some say, so I created a script called "Nautilus" and set it to open Konqueror. This partially worked, as the "Open Containing Folder" command did open in Konqueror, but it didn't open the actual folder, and loaded Konqueror's homepage instead. I want to know how to write a proper script to do what I want to do. Can anyone help?