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Llama

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From: St.-Petersburg, Russia

Registered: 2008-03-03

Posts: 1,379

The default browser

I tried to make Google Chrome my default browser. Now my situation looks like this:

(1) Google Chrome thinks it's my default browser.

(2) Firefox still thinks it's my default browser.

(3) KDE System Settings->Default Applications agrees that Google Chrome is my default browser.

(4) RSSNOW widget requires Firefox no matter what.

Is there a way to sort things out?

milomouse

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Registered: 2009-03-24

Posts: 940

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Re: The default browser

So you just want them all to agree which is default?  I'm not sure how to set a "global" default regardless of application settings. I don't use KDE but what I did was just export the default browser setting in my shell, for my instance: ~/.zshrc (or ~/.bashrc)

export BROWSER=/usr/bin/uzbl-browser

and now whenever I select a link from within a program (not including the individual browsers themselves) it will open in the web-browser I specified in my shell configuration, which is uzbl-browser in my case.

Mozilla still thinks it's default but it's not. I don't think it matters what it thinks though because my stuff still opens in Uzbl.