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This is getting stupid. I switched from Chromium to Firefox, and it worked fine. I run Irssi on Terminal, and was able to open links to Firefox by middclicking. But now they open to Opera! I'm quite sure I didn't change anything. Exo-preferred-applications still shows Firefox is the default. If I type "xdg-open http://google.com" it also uses Firefox. I also added "BROWSER=firefox" to .profile now, it didn't help.
I removed Opera for a test, and then Chromium was the default. I removed it and Gnome browser was used I'm using XFCE4 btw, I uninstalled Gnome some time ago (long before I had this problem).
Firefox doesn't check if it's default browser when it starts.. And if I use "check now" button, nothing happens.. I have updated all packages.
Last edited by strummer (2011-06-04 09:18:37)
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you can try to add this to your .bashrc
# Browser
if [ -n "$DISPLAY" ]; then
BROWSER=firefox
else
BROWSER=links
fi
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That will help the OP be more slick once his problem is solved, but it obviously won't solve his original problem.
Btw, this seems to be a duplicate of https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=119236.
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Yeah, your right, obviously. Sorry.
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Haven't solved this.. Tried helpers.rc, preferred applications, xdg-mime.. It's so weird, xdg-open works, why can't Terminal use it?-)
https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi? … AndLogIn=1 I guess this is the same problem..
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I still don't know why this doesn't work.. I mean really, Terminal can use all the other browsers but not Firefox?
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Adding x-scheme-handler/http=exo-web-browser.desktop to ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list worked, XFCE forums helped!
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