Re: lenny: how to use iceweasel, ie. x-www-browser from icedove?

[Florian Kulzer <florian.kulzer+debian@icfo.es>]

On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 11:00:27 +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
> Ron Johnson wrote:
>> On 03/11/08 03:34, Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
>>> On my newly installed lenny, icedove opens links with epiphany instead
>>> of my prefered iceweasel:
>>>
>>> root@e13-v21:~# ll /etc/alternatives/ |grep x-www-browser
>>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  18 2008-02-23 22:40 x-www-browser ->
>>> /usr/bin/iceweasel
>>> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  34 2008-02-23 22:40 x-www-browser.1.gz ->
>>> /usr/share/man/man1/iceweasel.1.gz
>>>
>>> How to fix this?
>>
>> If you are implying that you use GNOME, then what you want is:
>> System->Preferences->"Preferred Applications".
>
> I am using KDE. That's why I'm rather upset that icedove doesn't respect  
> my system's default settings and instead 'forces' the use of gnome's  
> epiphany.

Check the network.protocol-handler.app.http setting of icedove. (Edit ->
Preferences -> Advanced tab -> Config Editor... button -> enter "http"
as a filter) In my case this is set to "x-www-browser" (default) and
that seems to work. (I have x-www-browser pointing to iceweasel just
like you.)

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