Re: debian sensible browser help
On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 02:05:18PM +0000, I wrote:
> You might check in /etc/mailcap for lines that begin with "text/html". I
> prefer to have iceweasel called instead of sensible-browser, so I move the
> line with sensible-browser to the end of mailcap. I often have to repeat
> this procedure after an upgrade.
On 2011-07-25 15:30:57 GMT, Darac Marjal replied:
> I believe ~/.mailcap overrides /etc/mailcap, so rather than editing
> /etc/mailcap and having to keep it up-to-date, you might find it easier
> to simply copy the line to ~/.mailcap.
I tested this and you're right. That's an improvement. Thanks.
On 2011-07-25 19:14:48 GMT, Robert Holtzman wrote:
> Anything wrong with putting the following line in .bashrc?
>
> BROWSER=/usr/bin/google-chrome && export BROWSER
>From my command line, I tried
BROWSER=/usr/bin/iceweasel export BROWSER
but found that reading an html e-mail then brought up both iceweasel and
sensible-browser. I had no entry for html in ~/.mailcap, and /etc/mailcap
listed sensible-browser. I did this all with metamail, which is kind of
archaic.
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