Re: no alternatives for firefox/mozilla

[Gergely 'Dinchamion' Fazekas <dinchamion@gmail.com>]

While in certain situations it might be uncomfortable, but I use Chrome 
and didn't really encounter any problems.

But I agree that it would be easier to integrate the default browser as 
a variable, that could be called on by applications, instead of calling 
on a specific one.

However, I suspect it's a more complex problem than that. There are a 
number of applications that can or should be treated this way (e-mail 
clients, for example), therefore I believe it's more of an upstream 
decision, and with the number of desktop environments I don't know how 
realistically we can expect implementation.

Cheers,
Din

On 05/07/2010 05:20 AM, T o n g wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Having upgraded iceweasel, I am no longer able to call firefox or mozilla
> from command line any more. I don't mind firefox is called iceweasel or
> whatever in Debian, but entirely stopping me from starting firefox is
> something I don't feel comfortable.
>
> Please comment.
>
> PS:
>
> $ apt-cache policy iceweasel
> iceweasel:
>    Installed: 3.5.9-2
>    Candidate: 3.5.9-2
>    Version table:
>       3.5.9-3 0
>           50 http://debian.mirror.rafal.ca unstable/main Packages
>   *** 3.5.9-2 0
>          300 http://debian.mirror.rafal.ca testing/main Packages
>          100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
>
> $ update-alternatives --display firefox
> update-alternatives: error: no alternatives for firefox.
>
> $ update-alternatives --display mozilla
> update-alternatives: error: no alternatives for mozilla.
>
>