On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 04:54:37PM +1100, Leslie Katz wrote: > I'm using Fedora, rather than Ubuntu. > > Following Applications>Preferences>More Preferences, I get to Preferred > Applications. When I click on it, I get a window with a number of tabs, > one of which is called Web Browser. > > On that tab, I'm able to select my default web browser. I've got the > Custom Web Browser button highlighted and a box into which I'm to put a > command. The command which appears is the full path to the Firefox > executable. I've tested that command from the command line and it does > open Firefox. Unlike what I understand to be your situation, however, > there is no option available on that tab relating to how links are to be > opened. > > It's occurred to me since posting my original query that maybe there's > something that's changed without my knowing it in the Firefox > configuration editor and that that's what's caused me to lose the > automatic opening of links.
Didn't you say you're using firefox 2.0.0.2? That's not standard on any released fedora that I know of. If you installed it yourself from source, or from an alternative rpm repo, then I suspect that could be the origin of your problem. Matt -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
