Hi Radu:
Thanks for your reply. I tried that command and it gave me a list of
browsers located in /usr/bin ... none of which was firefox. Firefox on
my computer resides at home$/mozilla/firefox. Incidentally, I tried to
pick another browser on the list (mozilla), but Epiphany was again
started by default. It REALLY likes Epiphany ! hehe
You have a local installation of firefox ... that's why it's not in
the list. You can force it with update-alternatives --set x-www-broswer
/path/to/firefox ( but this is system wide ... so you need to do it as
root, you might also want to either install the firefox via apt-get or
put it in an available location ( such as /usr/local or /local ) )
I am not that familiar with KDE , but in gnome you can start
gnome-default-applications-properties .
You may also need to re-start ( I am not sure about this ) the
kdm/gdm after you set the preferences.
Radu
Jamie