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Re: debian sensible browser help



On Mon, Jul 25, 2011 at 11:53:28PM +0000, Steve Kleene wrote:
> 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.

Try putting that line in .bashrc, log out and back in. Don't forget the
"&&".
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Bob Holtzman
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