On Monday, March 5, 2012 8:52:18 AM UTC-8, John H Palmieri wrote:
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> On Monday, March 5, 2012 8:40:48 AM UTC-8, Jim wrote:
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>> I am running Sage 4.8 on Mac OS X 10.6.8.
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>> I have been using Safari as my default browser, but I am getting 
>> discouraged because Safari crashes frequently.
>>
>> All of my bookmarks and ways of browsing the web are in Safari, so I want 
>> to keep Safari as my default browser,
>> but I am switching to Firefox when using Sage.
>>
>> According to the Sage document 
>> http://www.sagemath.org/doc/reference/sagenb/notebook/notebook_object.html
>> I can override the default browser by putting export 
>> SAGE_BROWSER="firefox"
>>
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> When I do this and then start the notebook, I see
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>   .../local/bin/sage-native-execute: line 8: firefox: command not found
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> This works for me:
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>   export SAGE_BROWSER='open -a /Applications/Firefox.app'
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> (Change this to the path to the firefox app, if necessary.) The 
> documentation apparently needs to be fixed, at least as far as OS X is 
> concerned.
>

Oh, a few more things, in case people are reading this who aren't that 
familiar with the Terminal app and bash: you can give the command

  export SAGE_BROWSER='open -a /Applications/Firefox.app'

at the shell prompt and it will have immediate effect, so you can test it 
right away.  Second, if you instead change .bashrc, you should start a new 
terminal window for the changes to take effect. You can test whether it has 
done anything by typing 'export' and seeing if SAGE_BROWSER is listed with 
the appropriate setting.

-- 
John

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