Setting a default browser
Carl William Spitzer IV
cwsiv at access-4-free.com
Fri Feb 11 20:16:56 GMT 2005
On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 21:39, Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper wrote:
> On Wednesday 02 February 2005 23:49, Carl William Spitzer IV wrote:
> > On Tue, 2005-01-25 at 18:07, Larry Howe
> > <SNIP>
> >
> > > Another way to do it would be to go KControl / KDE Components / File
> > > Associations / html and then change the Application Preference Order to
> > > put your desired browser at the top of the list.
> >
> > Tried that and it didnt work in either 8.2 pro or 9.1 pro. The hack I
> > use has worked however. I never looked into why the other failed.
>
> I'm curious as to what your hack is. =:)
simple redirection. Find the location of the default browser with which
command then su and change to that location; rename the default and
create a symbolic link to the desired browser.
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