Having Mozilla Firefox as default web browser

2012-05-14 Thread Francesco Pietra
Hi Following extensive upgrading of 1386 wheezy, I am unable to get easily Mozilla Firefox as web browser. I have to commad with full path to its installation. Iceweasel is unable to treat Google Mail adequately. More importantly, Iceaweasel is unable to talk in/back with my connections to

Re: Having Mozilla Firefox as default web browser

2012-05-14 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 14 May 2012 11:56:08 +0200, Francesco Pietra wrote: Following extensive upgrading of 1386 wheezy, I am unable to get easily Mozilla Firefox as web browser. I have to commad with full path to its installation. What's your desktop? Have you checked with update-alternatives --list

Re: Having Mozilla Firefox as default web browser

2012-05-14 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2012-05-14 17:46 +0200, Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 14 May 2012 11:56:08 +0200, Francesco Pietra wrote: Following extensive upgrading of 1386 wheezy, I am unable to get easily Mozilla Firefox as web browser. I have to commad with full path to its installation. What's your desktop? Have

Re: Having Mozilla Firefox as default web browser

2012-05-14 Thread Lisi
On Monday 14 May 2012 16:57:28 Sven Joachim wrote: Iceweasel is unable to treat Google Mail adequately. This is something that can be reported, should the error is consistent and fully reproducible. AFAIK this is already known, and the problem is not the small difference between

Re: Having Mozilla Firefox as default web browser

2012-05-14 Thread Indulekha
On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 05:05:28PM +0100, Lisi wrote: On Monday 14 May 2012 16:57:28 Sven Joachim wrote: Iceweasel is unable to treat Google Mail adequately. This is something that can be reported, should the error is consistent and fully reproducible. AFAIK this is already known,

Re: Having Mozilla Firefox as default web browser

2012-05-14 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 14 May 2012 17:57:28 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2012-05-14 17:46 +0200, Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 14 May 2012 11:56:08 +0200, Francesco Pietra wrote: Iceweasel is unable to treat Google Mail adequately. This is something that can be reported, should the error is consistent and

Re: Having Mozilla Firefox as default web browser

2012-05-14 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2012-05-14 18:26 +0200, Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 14 May 2012 17:57:28 +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: On 2012-05-14 17:46 +0200, Camaleón wrote: On Mon, 14 May 2012 11:56:08 +0200, Francesco Pietra wrote: Iceweasel is unable to treat Google Mail adequately. This is something that can be

Re: Having Mozilla Firefox as default web browser

2012-05-14 Thread Brad Rogers
On Mon, 14 May 2012 17:05:28 +0100 Lisi lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: Hello Lisi, I have the impression, which may indeed be erroneous, that Google has deliberately obsoleted Iceweasel in order to push its users into Chrome or Most organisations are stopping support for older versions of

Re: Can't set Chrome as default web browser in KDE 4

2011-08-30 Thread Thomas Yao
On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 11:17 AM, Scott Ferguson prettyfly.producti...@gmail.com wrote: Try:- # update-alternatives --set x-www-browser /usr/bin/chromium-browser Ref:- man update-alternatives Cheers Thx 4 help :) -- Twitter: @ghosTM55 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Can't set Chrome as default web browser in KDE 4

2011-08-29 Thread Thomas Yao
Hi all, I just met this strange problem after I installed Squeeze with KDE 4 Everytime I open Google Chrome it told me it's not the default browser yet and I clicked on set as default but the hint still show up And I get Chrome set up as default Web Browser applications in System Settings

Re: Can't set Chrome as default web browser in KDE 4

2011-08-29 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 30/08/11 11:39, Thomas Yao wrote: Hi all, I just met this strange problem after I installed Squeeze with KDE 4 Everytime I open Google Chrome it told me it's not the default browser yet and I clicked on set as default but the hint still show up And I get Chrome set up as default Web Browser

Re: default web browser

2009-04-22 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 17 Apr 2009, Mark Grieveson wrote: On Fri, 17 Apr 2009 19:00:05 + (UTC) debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: Here's your problem. For some reason you are missing the x-www-browser=20 link. You could try: # update-alternatives --auto x-www-browser # aptitude

Re: default web browser

2009-04-19 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat,18.Apr.09, 23:56:47, Mark Grieveson wrote: On Sat, 18 Apr 2009 10:30:32 + (UTC) debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: Is sensible-browser using iceweasel now? No. In spite of repairing the x-www-browser link to iceweasel, when I command OOo3 to look for

Re: default web browser

2009-04-18 Thread Mark Grieveson
On Sat, 18 Apr 2009 10:30:32 + (UTC) debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: Is sensible-browser using iceweasel now? No. In spite of repairing the x-www-browser link to iceweasel, when I command OOo3 to look for dictionaries on the internet, it still relies upon the www-browser

Re: default web browser

2009-04-17 Thread Mark Grieveson
On Fri, 17 Apr 2009 08:46:27 + (UTC) debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: What does sensible-browser give? The update-alternatives --list sensible-browser just stated No alternatives for sensible-browser. Running sensible-browser on its own was not possible -- it required a

Re: default web browser

2009-04-17 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri,17.Apr.09, 08:01:35, Mark Grieveson wrote: On Fri, 17 Apr 2009 08:46:27 + (UTC) debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: What does sensible-browser give? The update-alternatives --list sensible-browser just stated No alternatives for sensible-browser. That's

Re: default web browser

2009-04-17 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 17 Apr 2009, Anthony Campbell wrote: On 16 Apr 2009, Mark Grieveson wrote: m...@debian:~$ update-alternatives --list x-www-browser bash: update-alternatives: command not found m...@debian:~$ su Password: debian:/home/mark# update-alternatives --list x-www-browser

Re: default web browser

2009-04-17 Thread Mark Grieveson
On Fri, 17 Apr 2009 15:15:58 + (UTC) debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: Can you please show the output of these commands (as user, not root): echo $DISPLAY which x-www-browser m...@debian:~$ echo $DISPLAY :0.0 m...@debian:~$ which x-www-browser m...@debian:~$ Mark --

Re: default web browser

2009-04-17 Thread Mark Grieveson
On Fri, 17 Apr 2009 15:15:58 + (UTC) debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: After running the update-alternatives commands, reportbug now uses dillo as I wanted it to. Anthony Congratulations. Still no luck here, but I feel I'm getting closer. I checked the links in the

Re: default web browser

2009-04-17 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri,17.Apr.09, 13:25:08, Mark Grieveson wrote: On Fri, 17 Apr 2009 15:15:58 + (UTC) debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: Can you please show the output of these commands (as user, not root): echo $DISPLAY which x-www-browser m...@debian:~$ echo $DISPLAY :0.0

Re: default web browser

2009-04-17 Thread Mark Grieveson
In further looking at the issue of the dead links in /etc/alternatives directory, leading to sensible-browser opening lynx rather than iceweasel, I attempted to install a gui program entitled galternatives, to see if that could assist me. This has brought up another issue, which I've had with

Re: default web browser

2009-04-17 Thread Mark Grieveson
On Fri, 17 Apr 2009 14:29:47 -0400 Mark Grieveson dg...@torfree.net wrote: This has brought up another issue, which I've had with some other gtk programs (IE, emelfm). In trying to run galternatives, I received the following error: Quick correction to an error I made. When I cited emelfm as

Re: default web browser

2009-04-17 Thread Mark Grieveson
On Fri, 17 Apr 2009 19:00:05 + (UTC) debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: Here's your problem. For some reason you are missing the x-www-browser=20 link. You could try: # update-alternatives --auto x-www-browser # aptitude reinstall iceweasel # aptitude purge iceweasel

Re: default web browser

2009-04-17 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri,17.Apr.09, 16:27:05, Mark Grieveson wrote: On Fri, 17 Apr 2009 19:00:05 + (UTC) debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: Here's your problem. For some reason you are missing the x-www-browser=20 link. You could try: # update-alternatives --auto x-www-browser #

default web browser

2009-04-16 Thread Mark Grieveson
Hello. I'm using Fluxbox. Whenever I download an extension, such as a new dictionary, for OpenOffice.org, it opens up uxterm, and runs lynx. I checked OpenOffice.org's options and customize choices, but there is no option that I could find to set the browser that it uses. So, I'm assuming it

Re: default web browser

2009-04-16 Thread Pedro Insua
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 02:05:32PM -0400, Mark Grieveson wrote: Hello. I'm using Fluxbox. Whenever I download an extension, such as a new dictionary, for OpenOffice.org, it opens up uxterm, and runs lynx. I checked OpenOffice.org's options and customize choices, but there is no option that I

Re: default web browser

2009-04-16 Thread Mark Grieveson
On Thu, 16 Apr 2009 20:09:11 + (UTC) debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: Hello. I'm using Fluxbox. Whenever I download an extension, such as a new dictionary, for OpenOffice.org, it opens up uxterm, and runs lynx. How, then, can I change this for OpenOffice (or

Re: default web browser

2009-04-16 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 16 Apr 2009, Mark Grieveson wrote: m...@debian:~$ update-alternatives --list x-www-browser bash: update-alternatives: command not found m...@debian:~$ su Password: debian:/home/mark# update-alternatives --list x-www-browser /usr/bin/iceweasel debian:/home/mark# update-alternatives

Re: how to change the default web browser from epiphany to iceweasel?

2008-10-11 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 07:59:32PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: Tzafrir Cohen wrote: There are plenty of chat groups on conference.jabber.org. Very few active ones. Is that one actually active? From time to time, that conference does get busy. I myself tend to autojoin and leave it open,

Re: how to change the default web browser from epiphany to iceweasel?

2008-10-10 Thread Paul Johnson
Tzafrir Cohen wrote: There are plenty of chat groups on conference.jabber.org. Very few active ones. Is that one actually active? From time to time, that conference does get busy. I myself tend to autojoin and leave it open, glancing to see if there's any new traffic every now and then. Your

Re: how to change the default web browser from epiphany to iceweasel?

2008-10-09 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 09:55:34AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: On Tue, 2008-10-07 at 14:58 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Tue,07.Oct.08, 17:09:29, Star Liu wrote: thank you. do you have any IM so that i can add you into my debian group? Hello Star, If you are interested in

Re: how to change the default web browser from epiphany to iceweasel?

2008-10-08 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tue, 2008-10-07 at 14:58 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Tue,07.Oct.08, 17:09:29, Star Liu wrote: thank you. do you have any IM so that i can add you into my debian group? Hello Star, If you are interested in something more instant than mailing lists you might want to try the

Re: how to change the default web browser from epiphany to iceweasel?

2008-10-08 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed,08.Oct.08, 09:02:44, Star Liu wrote: On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 7:58 PM, Andrei Popescu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue,07.Oct.08, 17:09:29, Star Liu wrote: thank you. do you have any IM so that i can add you into my debian group? Hello Star, If you are interested in something more

how to change the default web browser from epiphany to iceweasel?

2008-10-07 Thread Star Liu
as the title. everytime when i click a link in pidgin, it opens epiphany, but i usually use iceweseal, how to change the behavior of pidgin and other applications to use iceweseal as the default web browser? thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: how to change the default web browser from epiphany to iceweasel?

2008-10-07 Thread Diego Martínez Castañeda
On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 8:06 AM, Star Liu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: as the title. everytime when i click a link in pidgin, it opens epiphany, but i usually use iceweseal, how to change the behavior of pidgin and other applications to use iceweseal as the default web browser? thanks I suppose

Re: how to change the default web browser from epiphany to iceweasel?

2008-10-07 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Star Liu wrote: as the title. everytime when i click a link in pidgin, it opens epiphany, but i usually use iceweseal, how to change the behavior of pidgin and other applications to use iceweseal as the default web browser? thanks What

Re: how to change the default web browser from epiphany to iceweasel?

2008-10-07 Thread Jaime Tarrant
On Tue, 07 Oct 2008, Star Liu wrote: as the title. everytime when i click a link in pidgin, it opens epiphany, but i usually use iceweseal, how to change the behavior of pidgin and other applications to use iceweseal as the default web browser? thanks I tend to set this using: update

Re: how to change the default web browser from epiphany to iceweasel?

2008-10-07 Thread Star Liu
to change the behavior of pidgin and other applications to use iceweseal as the default web browser? thanks I suppose you're in GNOME, isn't it? Then, go to System-Preferences-Favorite Applications and select yours. I'm not using GNOME in English so, my translation could be wrong. diego

Re: how to change the default web browser from epiphany to iceweasel?

2008-10-07 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Tue,07.Oct.08, 17:09:29, Star Liu wrote: thank you. do you have any IM so that i can add you into my debian group? Hello Star, If you are interested in something more instant than mailing lists you might want to try the #debian IRC channel on irc.debian.org Regards, Andrei -- If you

Re: how to change the default web browser from epiphany to iceweasel?

2008-10-07 Thread Star Liu
to change the behavior of pidgin and other applications to use iceweseal as the default web browser? thanks I tend to set this using: update-alternatives --config x-www-browser This will show a numbered list of installed browsers, from which you can select the number corresponding to your

Re: how to change the default web browser from epiphany to iceweasel?

2008-10-07 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Star Liu wrote: thank you. do you have any IM so that i can add you into my debian group? Hi Star, You've already added me, but as Andrei points out the IRC is a very consistent place to find support/kill time. Kind Regards Rich Healey - --

choosing default web browser in mutt

2005-08-03 Thread Clive Menzies
Hi Following excellent advice here recently, I used update-alternatives to make sure firefox is the system default web browser. AFAICT this is working fine. The problem arises in mutt. If I right-click on a link within an email, firefox will launch and display the page. However, if I receive

Re: choosing default web browser in mutt

2005-08-03 Thread Tom
[03/08/2005 -- 19:34u] Clive Menzies: The mutt manual refers to adding: macro index \cb |urlview\n macro pager \cb |urlview\n to the .muttrc file but this has no noticeable effect. It should make up a list of URLs contained in the message, each of which you can view with the default browser

Re: choosing default web browser in mutt SOLVED

2005-08-03 Thread Clive Menzies
On (03/08/05 19:54), Tom wrote: [03/08/2005 -- 19:34u] Clive Menzies: The mutt manual refers to adding: macro index \cb |urlview\n macro pager \cb |urlview\n to the .muttrc file but this has no noticeable effect. It should make up a list of URLs contained in the message, each of which

Re: setting emacs default web browser

2001-12-03 Thread Tom Allison
Markus Kutschan wrote: Tom Allison writes: How Do I: Change the emacs default browser from netscape to something else (specifically Mozilla) for viewing/previewing web pages? Try this in your .emacs: ;; Default-Browser = Mozilla (setq browse-url-generic-program mozilla

setting emacs default web browser

2001-11-29 Thread Tom Allison
How Do I: Change the emacs default browser from netscape to something else (specifically Mozilla) for viewing/previewing web pages?

Re: setting emacs default web browser

2001-11-29 Thread Markus Kutschan
Tom Allison writes: How Do I: Change the emacs default browser from netscape to something else (specifically Mozilla) for viewing/previewing web pages? Try this in your .emacs: ;; Default-Browser = Mozilla (setq browse-url-generic-program mozilla browse-url-browser-function