proposal: switch default browser on plasma spin to firefox

Ian Malone ibmalone at gmail.com
Mon Aug 10 22:04:29 UTC 2015


On 10 August 2015 at 18:26, Rex Dieter <rdieter at math.unl.edu> wrote:
> Rex Dieter wrote:
>
>> Gerald B. Cox wrote:
>>
>>> On Mon, Aug 10, 2015 at 8:37 AM, Rex Dieter
>>> <rdieter at math.unl.edu> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Specifically (as quoted above, as primary and secondary proposals):
>>>>
>>>> * install firefox and set it as the default browser (and handler of
>>>> related mimetypes, e.g. text/html, x-scheme-handler/http, etc..)
>>>> * keep konqueror installed as a secondary browser
>>>>
>>>
>>> I'm a little unclear about this... exactly how is this planned to be
>>> accomplished.  Does this mean Firefox will
>>> now be installed for all KDE users - or is this only going to impact
>>> people
>>> who use the Live CD?
>>
>> Live CD.
>
> One addendum, we'll have to test it both ways, but I think we'll have to
> keep:
> systesmsettings5->Applications->Default Applications->Web Browser
> Open http and https URLs option set to
> "in an application based on the contents of the URL"
> (as it is currently) rather than static browser entry, to be on the safe
> side.

This is how things are set in Fedora Jam (which basically adds
packages on top of KDE spin) and it seems to work. The only other
browser-related change (I think) is Firefox is included in the
Favourites menu.

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imalone
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