In the past, I have always set my default browser to Dillo, which
is very fast and very safe; and it usually shows me at least enough to
guess reasonably well whether I want to go on, switch to another browser,
or skip the site.
I've managed to make it a partial default (under xfce4 in F18).
Pan, for instance, routinely opens links in Dillo. Alpine, however, does
not. (I run Alpine on a remote host, over ssh; is that relevant? It does
open Firefox.)
Like so many other things of late, the software to set default
choices seems to have been moved to some new place, without leaving a
spoor behind to follow. So the place I found to set defaults is quite
likely not the main one. What is??
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Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User
Remember I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is.