Re: iceweasel always requesting to be default browser
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Joe Hart wrote:
> Roman Stöckl-Schmidt wrote:
>> Michael M. schrieb:
>>> So what is your default browser? Do you have iceweasel set as the
>>> default in any DE you are using, if you are using one? What does
>>> update-alternatives report?
>> Okay, I'm using Gnome and in the preferred applications settings or
>> whatever it's called in english it says custom with the command to run
>> the application set to "/usr/lib/iceweasel/firefox "%s". When I set it
>> to iceweasel in the dropdown menu and start iceweasel, it gives me the
>> "I'm not your default browser, buhu"-crap again. And when I confirm to
>> let the app set itself as default the etnry in the default app-settings
>> from Gnome are as they were in the beginning.
>
>> So apparently everything is fine but iceweasel doesn't detect that the
>> entry it made itself is actually iceweasel as the default rather than
>> some other program. easiest workaround for now would be to just disable
>> the warning in iceweasel, butr the underlying problem wouldn't be solved
>> by that, now would it?
>
>> Assuming that you guys don't really now what to do to change this
>> behaviour either, apart from filing a bug report to change the source, I
>> have only one more question: Where should I file this, is it a debian
>> related problem, firefox or Gnome?
>
>> Thanks again.
>
>> P.S.: I've never used update-alternatives before but couldnt really
>> figure out how to use it in my case from the man page. I did
>
>> #update-alternatives --display firefox
>> #update-alternatives --display /usr/bin/firefox
>> #update-alternatives --display /usr/bin/firefox
>> #update-alternatives --display browser
>
>> and they all returned no alternatives for $command
>
>
>
> Keep in mind, that Firefox main target is Windows, and while Iceweasel
> is Debian's fork of the project, I suspect much of the code is specific
> to Windows, including that "default browser". I would suggest you just
> turn off the feature in IceWeasel, which you can do by going to Edit ->
> Preferences, Main tab, uncheck "Always check to see if Iceweasel is the
> default browser".
>
> Your problem will go away.
>
> As for the update-alternatives, you've got the --display right, but you
> should be looking for www-browser instead of browser.
>
> #update-alternatives --config www-browser
Andrei is correct. It should be x-www-browser. www-browser just
controls which browser is used in the console.
Shame on me for telling you www-browser. Still, IMO, telling Iceweasel
not to check is the best option in your case.
Joe
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