12 Jan
2016
12 Jan
'16
12:41 a.m.
On Monday 11 January 2016 22:51:40 Gene Heskett wrote:
On Monday 11 January 2016 13:16:41 Lisi Reisz wrote:
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
On Monday 11 January 2016 17:42:05 Gene Heskett
wrote:
At the target range, thats a 200-10x statement. :) On Monday 11 January 2016 09:55:52 Lisi Reisz
wrote:
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 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 OTOH, I am not so
sure the mozilla people haven't succumbed to the dark side at times.
Cheers, Gene Heskett