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From: Jeff Gaines on 20 Feb 2006 13:00 I has issues with Epiphany crashing constantly, so I uninstalled it - Synaptic uninstalled Gnome as well but I'm using KDE. How do I set Firefox as my default browser please? Before I uninstalled Epiphany if I clicked on a link then I would get a message that Epiphany had crashed, now I get nothing at all :-( I have looked at File Associations in the KDE Control Centre but I guess I haven't found the right file type yet. Many thanks. -- Jeff Gaines Damerham Hampshire UK
From: Bruce Stephens on 20 Feb 2006 13:35 Jeff Gaines <jgaines_newsid(a)yahoo.co.uk> writes: > I has issues with Epiphany crashing constantly, so I uninstalled it - > Synaptic uninstalled Gnome as well but I'm using KDE. > > How do I set Firefox as my default browser please? Before I > uninstalled Epiphany if I clicked on a link then I would get a > message that Epiphany had crashed, now I get nothing at all :-( You could try "update-alternatives --config x-www-browser". I'd guess there's some more user-specific way, but I'm not that familiar with KDE (or GNOME, for that matter) to know how to do it. [...]
From: Simon Brooke on 20 Feb 2006 14:00 in message <45ueebF8g8vfU1(a)individual.net>, Jeff Gaines ('jgaines_newsid(a)yahoo.co.uk') wrote: > I has issues with Epiphany crashing constantly, so I uninstalled it - > Synaptic uninstalled Gnome as well but I'm using KDE. > > How do I set Firefox as my default browser please? Before I uninstalled > Epiphany if I clicked on a link then I would get a message that > Epiphany had crashed, now I get nothing at all :-( > > I have looked at File Associations in the KDE Control Centre but I > guess I haven't found the right file type yet. text/html HTH. HAND. -- simon(a)jasmine.org.uk (Simon Brooke) http://www.jasmine.org.uk/~simon/ ;; not so much a refugee from reality, more a bogus ;; asylum seeker
From: Darren Salt on 20 Feb 2006 14:00 I demand that Jeff Gaines may or may not have written... > I has issues with Epiphany crashing constantly, so I uninstalled it - > Synaptic uninstalled Gnome as well but I'm using KDE. > How do I set Firefox as my default browser please? Before I uninstalled > Epiphany if I clicked on a link then I would get a message that Epiphany > had crashed, now I get nothing at all :-( > I have looked at File Associations in the KDE Control Centre but I guess I > haven't found the right file type yet. Globally: # update-alternatives --config x-www-browser If this doesn't work, then your desktop isn't trying to run x-www-browser when you activate the "browser" icon or menu item; and if you've not altered those items, you should consider filing a bug report in the appropriate package (whichever one is providing the menus). For a full list of alternatives: $ ls /etc/alternatives or, if you might want to alter several of them, # update-alternatives --all -- | Darren Salt | d youmustbejoking,demon,co,uk | nr. Ashington, | Debian, | s zap,tartarus,org | Northumberland | RISC OS | @ | Toon Army | <URL:http://www.youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk/progs.packages.html> Never underestimate the stupidity of people in Government-sized groups.
From: Jeff Gaines on 20 Feb 2006 17:27
On Mon, 20 Feb 2006 19:00:49 +0000, Simon Brooke wrote: > text/html Many thanks Bruce/Darren/Simon :-) I may have caused a problem here, I down-loaded Firefox and un-tarred it to home/jeff/apps/firefox. It works but because it wasn't a Debian package then I don't think the system is aware of it. It's not just 1 file, so I can't move it to /usr/bin and there's no install file. Have I done something terrible? I didn't see a 'deb' for d/l but perhaps I didn't look hard enough? -- Jeff Gaines Damerham Hampshire UK |