Re: getting OOo to use Firefox
On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 05:58:42PM -0400, Rick Reynolds wrote:
> As indicated in another thread, I've recently switched to Enlightenment
> from Gnome due to the keyboard mapping bug (I'm still going to test out
> a workaround, but I need to get work done in the meantime...)
>
> I'm finding out that gnome was doing a good amount of linkage for me.
> In particular, I used to be able to click on a weblink in a spreadsheet
> and have it opened in Firefox. Not anymore. OOo complains:
>
> "OpenOffice.org could not find a web browser on your system..."
>
> I've checked into the /etc/alternatives system and firefox is my chosen
> browser for x-www-browser. OOo doesn't seem to give me a spot to enter
> an application for handling www, so I can't just slap a path to a binary
> into a config anywhere (unless I've missed something -- which I could
> have). I've googled quite a bit about this and I can't seem to come up
> with a solution. Can someone point me in the right direction?
>
In Firefox preferences, do you have "Firefox should check to see if it
is the default browser when starting"?
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