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Re: How to install a browser (epiphany) without affecting mailcap etc.?



Anssi Saari <anssi.saari@debian-user.mail.kapsi.fi> wrote:
> Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> writes:
> 
> > However, when I install epiphany it takes over every single thing that
> > web browsers can do which is very frustrating, I only want to run it
> > explicitly for testing.  Is there any way to prevent the install
> > changing all the mailcap and mime settings etc.?
> 
> What I've done is configure "everything" (in my case that means urxvt,
> Konsole, Emacs, Thunderbird and not much else) to use x-www-browser and
> then I use update-alternatives to configure what that means. Firefox in
> my case.
> 
I had x-www-browser set to vivaldi but web links still got opened in
epiphany, I tried changing just about every setting I could find for a
browser to vivaldi but I still got epiphany.


> I guess this can still work when using a non-Debian browser like
> Vivaldi, maybe some extra work is needed to make update-alternatives
> aware of Vivaldi, I don't really know.

No, it's aware of vivaldi, with epiphany removed now I see:-

    chris$ update-alternatives --config x-www-browser
    There are 2 choices for the alternative x-www-browser (providing /usr/bin/x-www-browser).

      Selection    Path                     Priority   Status
    ------------------------------------------------------------
    * 0            /usr/bin/vivaldi-stable   200       auto mode
      1            /usr/bin/hv3              10        manual mode
      2            /usr/bin/vivaldi-stable   200       manual mode

Installing epiphany just added it as a choice but left vivaldi as the
configured browser, but still epiphany grabbed everything.


-- 
Chris Green
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