Re: Firefox won't stay as default browser ...

2005-10-04 Thread Danny Howard
On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 01:04:09PM -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote:
> Kiffin Gish wrote:
> 
> >Every time I fire up firefox it claims it is not the default browser. 
> >If I click on yes to make it the default browser or go into Prferences 
> >| General and hit the Default Browser [Check Now]-button and/or I 
> >restart firefox, I still get the message that it is NOT the default 
> >browser.
> >Nothing I do helps -- what got stuch?!
> >
>What desktop environment/window manager are you using?

I use fvwm2.

It is seriously obnoxious.

But I see another posted a thing to turn the checking bit off, so I'll
do that. :)

Silly Mozilla ...

-danny
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Re: Firefox won't stay as default browser ...

2005-09-28 Thread Kiffin Gish

nawcom wrote:


open up firefox and type into the url:

about:config

look up browser.shell.checkDefaultBrowser
and check the value. if its false, change to true and restart the 
browser. let me know if that works..


-Ben


Kiffin Gish wrote:

Every time I fire up firefox it claims it is not the default browser. 
If I click on yes to make it the default browser or go into 
Prferences | General and hit the Default Browser [Check Now]-button 
and/or I restart firefox, I still get the message that it is NOT the 
default browser.

Nothing I do helps -- what got stuch?!




Set to true (as expected) but that is not the problem. The check is 
being done, however the setting is not retained.


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Re: Firefox won't stay as default browser ...

2005-09-28 Thread nawcom

open up firefox and type into the url:

about:config

look up browser.shell.checkDefaultBrowser
and check the value. if its false, change to true and restart the 
browser. let me know if that works..


-Ben


Kiffin Gish wrote:
Every time I fire up firefox it claims it is not the default browser. 
If I click on yes to make it the default browser or go into Prferences 
| General and hit the Default Browser [Check Now]-button and/or I 
restart firefox, I still get the message that it is NOT the default 
browser.

Nothing I do helps -- what got stuch?!



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Re: Firefox won't stay as default browser ...

2005-09-27 Thread Garrett Cooper

Kiffin Gish wrote:

Every time I fire up firefox it claims it is not the default browser. 
If I click on yes to make it the default browser or go into Prferences 
| General and hit the Default Browser [Check Now]-button and/or I 
restart firefox, I still get the message that it is NOT the default 
browser.

Nothing I do helps -- what got stuch?!


   What desktop environment/window manager are you using?
-Garrett
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Firefox won't stay as default browser ...

2005-09-27 Thread Kiffin Gish
Every time I fire up firefox it claims it is not the default browser. If 
I click on yes to make it the default browser or go into Prferences | 
General and hit the Default Browser [Check Now]-button and/or I restart 
firefox, I still get the message that it is NOT the default browser. 


Nothing I do helps -- what got stuch?!

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Gouda, The Netherlands

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