-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Roman Stöckl-Schmidt wrote: > Michael M. schrieb: >> So what is your default browser? Do you have iceweasel set as the >> default in any DE you are using, if you are using one? What does >> update-alternatives report? > > Okay, I'm using Gnome and in the preferred applications settings or > whatever it's called in english it says custom with the command to run > the application set to "/usr/lib/iceweasel/firefox "%s". When I set it > to iceweasel in the dropdown menu and start iceweasel, it gives me the > "I'm not your default browser, buhu"-crap again. And when I confirm to > let the app set itself as default the etnry in the default app-settings > from Gnome are as they were in the beginning. > > So apparently everything is fine but iceweasel doesn't detect that the > entry it made itself is actually iceweasel as the default rather than > some other program. easiest workaround for now would be to just disable > the warning in iceweasel, butr the underlying problem wouldn't be solved > by that, now would it? > > Assuming that you guys don't really now what to do to change this > behaviour either, apart from filing a bug report to change the source, I > have only one more question: Where should I file this, is it a debian > related problem, firefox or Gnome? > > Thanks again. > > P.S.: I've never used update-alternatives before but couldnt really > figure out how to use it in my case from the man page. I did > > #update-alternatives --display firefox > #update-alternatives --display /usr/bin/firefox > #update-alternatives --display /usr/bin/firefox > #update-alternatives --display browser > > and they all returned no alternatives for $command > >
Keep in mind, that Firefox main target is Windows, and while Iceweasel is Debian's fork of the project, I suspect much of the code is specific to Windows, including that "default browser". I would suggest you just turn off the feature in IceWeasel, which you can do by going to Edit -> Preferences, Main tab, uncheck "Always check to see if Iceweasel is the default browser". Your problem will go away. As for the update-alternatives, you've got the --display right, but you should be looking for www-browser instead of browser. #update-alternatives --config www-browser Should allow you to choose the default. If Iceweasel isn't one of the choices, then you need to tell update-alternatives that IceWeasel is a candidate for www-browser. You do that with the --install parameter. Amazing what one learns when reading the manual. Just yesterday I was arguing about modifing the symlinks directly and it was suggest that I read that man page. Joe - -- Registerd Linux user #443289 at http://counter.li.org/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFF+8AUiXBCVWpc5J4RAnwxAJ4lp5b5dbt6w8nz2A9DrBFC9uCGfgCfU4Dk o/0azt4n4sOHPKxkUqX1h9U= =C3vV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
