Re: Changing the "default" web-browser

[Francesco <botofc@gmail.com>]

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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