11 Jan
2016
11 Jan
'16
6:10 p.m.
On Monday 11 January 2016 17:42:05 Gene Heskett wrote:
On Monday 11 January 2016 09:55:52 Lisi Reisz wrote:
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
On Monday 11 January 2016 13:29:28 Gene Heskett
wrote:
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. 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