Re: Cannot change default browser
On Mon November 13 2006 17:05, cothrige wrote:
> I have been using kopete, as gaim wasn't behaving quite to my needs,
> and found that when it prompts me to open an inbox on one of my
> accounts it always opens epiphany. Of course, the first thing I did
> was try to change whatever kopete thought was the right browser, but I
> could find nothing at all in the config options which indicated any
> selections of browsers.
>
> I don't have a full KDE installed, and so there is no control center
> type of thing I can run to change that. But I switched to gnome long
> enough to open the control center there and set firefox as default,
> but it did not work. I opened firefox and had it check for whether it
> was the default browser, and then made is such, but this also had no
> effect.
>
> After reading the man page and some online helps, I tried
> 'update-alternatives --set x-www-browser /usr/bin/firefox' but I still
> get epiphany. When I run 'update-alternatives --list x-www-browser'
> this is what I get:
> /usr/bin/epiphany
> /usr/bin/firefox
> /usr/bin/opera
>
> If I run 'update-alternatives --config x-www-browser' I get:
>
> There are 3 alternatives which provide `x-www-browser'.
>
> Selection Alternative
> -----------------------------------------------
> + 1 /usr/bin/epiphany
> * 2 /usr/bin/firefox
> 3 /usr/bin/opera
>
> Press enter to keep the default[*], or type selection number: 2
> Using `/usr/bin/firefox' to provide `x-www-browser'.
>
> I have checked display and it says x-www-browser is set to manual, so
> I thought the + would not mean anything, but it still defaults
> everytime to epiphany.
>
> Finally, I uninstalled epiphany, causing untold problems in the Gnome
> world, and this caused Opera to open. I actually like opera for some
> things, but not this, and so don't really want to have to uninstall
> it. So, now I am back to square one.
>
> Just how do I convince this app not to use any browser but firefox?
Try running update-alternatives --all. There is also a x-gnome-browser (or
somesuch) that may need an adjustment.
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