12 Jan
2016
12 Jan
'16
5:31 a.m.
On Monday 11 January 2016 19:36:58 Lisi Reisz wrote:
On Monday 11 January 2016 22:49:27 Gene Heskett
wrote:
Bupkiss I guess, my dear lady. But I just found out how to make synaptic
look at wheezy-backports, let it update around 350 packages, one of
which needed a TDE restart, and things in general feel better. I've
been trolling the net with iceweasel for the last hour and only had one
lockup, which is an improvement. Only one thing worries me, I saw a tar
update go by, and everytime they touch that puppy, some obscure calling
syntax change is needed. I'm sure the email report from amanda I'll get
in the morning will tell me something is wrong. Another lady, in a PM,
called me a lad, so I asked her how many calendars have been thrown away
on her shift here. I'd be willing to be my 81 can top it. ;o)
Take care Lisi, I am headed for the rack & see if I can find some ZZZ's.
On Monday 11 January 2016 13:10:47 Lisi Reisz
wrote:
What has that got to do with whether it is default or not??
Lisi
On Monday 11 January 2016 17:42:05 Gene Heskett
wrote:
I'd guess that on average, I can see about 1/2 the news videos. But
its always the side show interesting ones it won't show me. :( On Monday 11 January 2016 09:55:52 Lisi Reisz
wrote:
> On Monday 11 January 2016 13:29:28 Gene Heskett wrote:
> > I just ran iceweasel to check, it /thinks/ its the default!
> > But in /etc/alternatives www-browser -> lynx
> > and x-www-browser -> vivaldi
> >
> > And, there is no reference to iceweasel anyplace in
> > /etc/alternatives...
>
> I can vouch that once you have made the mistake of setting
> Iceweasel as default browser you can't undo it. See below:
>
> "The way to 'undo' Firefox being the default browser is always
> to set another browser as the default browser."
>
> https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/980646
>
> But that only works if the browser you want to choose allows
> it! Chrome says it doesn't and Konqueror seems not to.
>
> But in practice, the fact that Iceweasel now thinks that it is
> my default browser (I set it to default to find out for Gene's
> benefit how to unset it) doesn't seem to have much effect. If
> it does start to have an effect, I shall uninstall it, its
> conf. files, its hidden files etc. and reinstall it. I can
> only advise you to do the same, Gene - and next time I want to
> try something out for a similar reason I shan't risk doing it
> on my desktop machine. I couldn't believe that "Set as
> Default" couldn't just be _undone_ if one wanted!!! So I set
> it as default in order to unset it - and am stuck.
>
> So, Gene: Uninstall Iceweasel. Nuke Mozilla and Iceweasel
> from your machine, every last scrap. And if you have a reason
> why you really want Iceweasel, reinstall it *from* *the*
> *repositories*.
>
> Lisi
I looked at that, but it takes a lot of stuff with it. And I'm
not 110% sure it would put them back on a reinstall.
Don't let it. Or reinstall them afterwards yourself - keep a
list. Who is master? You or Iceweasel?? ;-)
But is it actually doing any harm now?
Lisi
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