Re: Problems with "preferred applications" (browser setting)

[Igor Pruchanskiy <igor@linuxinside.com>]

Arjan Oosting wrote:

> Op wo 11-08-2004, om 23:33 schreef Magnus Therning:
>  
>
> > I am experiencing some strange behaviour with gnome-terminal and the
> > "Open Link" right-click-menu choice. A week ago it worked perfect (using
> > FireFox through 'sensible-browser').
> >
> > A few days ago it started opening file://${HOME} instead of the URL as
> > soon as I had a browser window open already before.
> >
> > Now it insists on opening Epiphany ('sensible-browser' works as it's
> > supposed to from the command line) and using
> > "preferense:///Advanced/Preferred Applications" doesn't seem to have any
> > effect (no matter what I change it to I get Epiphany).
> >
> > Anyone else with similar problems, or am I alone with this?
> >    
> I have the same problem. The problem started a couple of days ago, after 
> i updated some packages but i don't know which one caused it.
>
> Greeting Arjan
>  
Try running `update-alternatives --config x-www-browser`
and select mozilla-firefox as the preferred browser...

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