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droppst · 2010-10-15 23:01:30

Iceweasel started to open all my links by default, but before it did Opera. I can not understand why this is happening, but I want to return to Opera as default browser.

update-alternatives --config x-www-browser

There are 2 choices for the alternative x-www-browser (providing /usr/bin/x-www-browser).

  Selection    Path                Priority   Status
------------------------------------------------------------
* 0            /usr/bin/opera       100       auto mode
  1            /usr/bin/iceweasel   70        manual mode
  2            /usr/bin/opera       100       manual mode

Press enter to keep the current choice[*], or type selection number: 0

/etc/alternatives# ls -l

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root  14 Oct 15 18:27 x-www-browser -> /usr/bin/opera

But still Iceweasel opens all links and pages (. I use Fluxbox.
Help me please.

skunktrader · 2010-10-15 23:55:38

/me has a horrible debian flashback

shulamy · 2010-10-16 11:58:49

have you tried in the browser preferences?

or alternatively in system->preferences->preferred application

or its equivalent in kde?

ezik

droppst · 2010-10-16 12:51:05

shulamy wrote:

have you tried in the browser preferences?

Iceweasel argues that it's default browser (if you look in the preferences).

shulamy wrote:

or alternatively in system->preferences->preferred application
or its equivalent in kde?

This is not available in Fluxbox.

shulamy · 2010-10-16 13:35:00

you had to write 1 instead of 0 in the first post.

droppst · 2010-10-16 13:38:35

Should not. I need Opera, but not Iceweasel.

shulamy · 2010-10-16 13:44:14

what if you write 2?

may be auto mode let iceweasel to take over.

Last edited by shulamy (2010-10-16 13:45:55)

droppst · 2010-10-16 14:23:43

shulamy wrote:

what if you write 2?

update-alternatives --config x-www-browser

There are 2 choices for the alternative x-www-browser (providing /usr/bin/x-www-browser).

  Selection    Path                Priority   Status
------------------------------------------------------------
* 0            /usr/bin/opera       100       auto mode
  1            /usr/bin/iceweasel   70        manual mode
  2            /usr/bin/opera       100       manual mode

Press enter to keep the current choice[*], or type selection number: 2
update-alternatives: error: unable to write /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives/x-www-browser.dpkg-tmp: Permission denied

shulamy wrote:

may be auto mode let iceweasel to take over.

Maybe, but I do not know how to remove

igndenok · 2010-10-16 15:18:13

It made me remember when I still use Fedora back then, choose between OpenJDK and JRE using alternative.
Try this link, it gives explanation how to choose OpenJDK and JRE using alternative and how to revert it back. Hope this is useful for you, and maybe you need search it at Fedora forum about alternative.

theringmaster · 2010-10-16 15:39:18

maybe just having one browser installed would fix the issue

Stebalien · 2010-10-16 15:44:31

1. You need to run update-alternatives with sudo.
2. Add the following to your autostart file.

export BROWSER="/usr/bin/opera"

droppst · 2010-10-16 17:56:24

igndenok wrote:

It made me remember when I still use Fedora back then, choose between OpenJDK and JRE using alternative.
Try this link, it gives explanation how to choose OpenJDK and JRE using alternative and how to revert it back. Hope this is useful for you, and maybe you need search it at Fedora forum about alternative.

thanks, I'll try to understand

theringmaster wrote:

maybe just having one browser installed would fix the issue

I tried, no results.

Stebalien wrote:

1. You need to run update-alternatives with sudo.

I tried, no results.

Stebalien wrote:

2. Add the following to your autostart file.
export BROWSER="/usr/bin/opera"

But the earlier work without this

theapodan · 2010-10-16 19:11:06

Where are you getting the command "update-alternatives"? I have no such thing on my system.

cesura · 2010-10-16 20:59:44

theapodan wrote:

Where are you getting the command "update-alternatives"? I have no such thing on my system.

skunktrader wrote:

/me has a horrible debian flashback

It's a Debian thing.

djeikyb · 2011-09-12 05:38:43

Seems doubtful the OP is even using Arch Linux, but this thread is top of the search pile anyway. Thus, a correct answer follows. Adjust for your preferred browser, be it Opera or a wine-powered Internet Explorer. I quote from the wiki:

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ch … lt_browser

[E]dit the xdg-open script.

$ sudo $YOUR_EDITOR /usr/bin/xdg-open

At almost the bottom on the file, is a long horizontal list of browsers:

if [ x"$DE" = x"" ]; then
   # if BROWSER variable is not set, check some well known browsers instead
   if [ x"$BROWSER" = x"" ]; then
       BROWSER=links2:links:lynx:w3m
       if [ -n "$DISPLAY" ]; then
           BROWSER=firefox:mozilla:epiphany:konqueror:chromium-browser:google-chrome:$BROWSER
       fi
   fi
   DE=generic
fi

Add chromium: (mind the colon which separates the entries) before firefox:mozilla: ... and save. To test if this were conducted successfully, type this into your terminal:

$ xdg-open http://google.com

If everything went perfect, either a new tab inside Chromium, or a new window would open and display the Google homepage, depending on your settings.

bohoomil · 2011-09-12 05:48:55

The OP was alive and kicking on 2010-10-16, 01:01:30, when he was asking for help. However, no one has heard of him ever since. ; )

Inxsible · 2011-09-12 06:14:28

Now that this thread has a solution, we can close it so there are no more necrobumps.

Closing..

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#1 2010-10-15 23:01:30

Default browser

#2 2010-10-15 23:55:38

Re: Default browser

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