On Monday 11 January 2016 22:51:40 Gene Heskett wrote:
On Monday 11 January 2016 13:16:41 Lisi Reisz wrote:
On Monday 11 January 2016 17:42:05 Gene Heskett wrote:
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.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
Or use another browser.
https://wiki.debian.org/WebBrowsers
It doesn't do any harm Iceweasel thinking it is default if nothing else agrees and the system is not using it as default. But that is a nasty trick, refusing to be unset like that. Worthy of M$ and Apple. Unworthy of an Open source program.
Lisi
At the target range, thats a 200-10x statement. :)
American guns again. ;-) Translation, please, for those of us who are less familiar with the idea of shooting everything that moves. I did try to look it up on Google, but I couldn't understand the explanations either.
Lisi
OTOH, I am not so sure the mozilla people haven't succumbed to the dark side at times.
Cheers, Gene Heskett