Re: minor issue : gnome, epiphany and iceweasel

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Fri, 01 Jul 2011 22:54:44 +0200, Camaleón wrote:

> El 01/07/11 09:40, Matej Kosik escribió:
> 
>> When listing text-files in gnome-terminal, if those files contains
>> URLs, gnome-terminal enables me to follow those links by starting a
>> web-browser. This is handy.
>> However, I have noticed some confusing behavior.
>>
>> When I follow HTTP links, e.g.:
>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yg0tVUnLOAM iceweasel is started. This
>> is fine and exactly what I want.
>>
>> When I follow FILE links, e.g.:
>> file:///usr/share/doc/libbitstring-ocaml-dev/html/api/Bitstring.html
>> epiphany is started. I do not understand why epiphany and not
>> iceweasel.
> 
> (...)
> 
> You can make Icewesel the default application to handle file://
> protocol, here are the steps:

(...)

I forget about the new file perms. 

Make sure that "$HOME/.gconf/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/file/%gconf.xml" 
is read/write only for your user, that is, chmod it 600.

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón