Re: Changing the "default" web-browser

From: Francesco (botofc_at_gmail.com)
Date: 02/27/05

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    Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 13:23:47 +0100
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    David A. Cobb wrote:
    > Debian 'sarge', 2.4.26 kernel, Gnome-desktop 2.8
    > e-mail client: Thunderbird version 1.0 (20050116)
    > web browser: Preferred=Mozilla Firefox Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686;
    > en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20050110 Firefox/1.0 (Debian package 1.0+dfsg.1-2)
    >
    > I _have_ set my "Preferences->Advanced->Preferred Applications" for
    > web-browser to "firefox."
    > However, everytime I click an http link in Thunderbird, Mozilla (the
    > total platform) launches. I would uninstall it -- I have before;
    > however, there are a few dependencies I'm loathe to break.
    >
    > OBTW, those dependencies could probably be changed to some virtual
    > package like "gekko-browser" provided be either Mozilla or Firefox.
    >
    > However, my immediate question is: how do I convince Gnome to launch
    > firefox when I ask for an 'http' link?
    >

    Try this:

    update-alternatives --config x-www-browser

    But this is for X I don't know if it functions for Gnome, too.
     

    Boto 

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