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Re: iceweasel always requesting to be default browser



On Sun, 2007-03-18 at 05:30 -0700, Michael M. wrote:
> If you make sure your alternatives settings are correct for
> "x-www-browser" and "gnome-www-browser," and you still get the "I'm not
> the default browser" message from Iceweasel, then I would guess that's a
> bug.  But as Joe said, you can just turn that check off as long as
> Iceweasel is functioning as your default browser.  In this case, if it
> is working the way you want, does it really matter if it for some reason
> doesn't recognize that it is working the way you want?

These are system wide, debian specific, settings. Iceweasel only checks
if the user has it set as default. (Presumably this is only for GNOME
and perhaps KDE?).

Anyway, this is a known bug, see 399632 and merged bugs.
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=399632

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