Re: Changing the "default" web-browser

["David A. Cobb" <superbiskit@cox.net>]

Francesco wrote:

> 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
It does, indeed.  Thanks much.

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David A. Cobb, Software Engineer, Public Access Advocate
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