Back Firefox! Back!

Satish Balay balay at fastmail.fm
Thu Nov 18 02:08:04 UTC 2004


On Wed, 17 Nov 2004, Robert G. (Doc) Savage wrote:

> Having upgraded from FC1 to FC3 a few days ago, I now have Firefox 1.0
> installed along side Mozilla 1.7.3. Now whenever I click on a link,
> Firefox comes up instead of Mozilla.
> 
> Call me a heretic (or at least a mad monk), but I actually prefer
> Mozilla over Firefox. At least under FC1 Mozilla didn't get confused and
> bring up RealPlayer whenever I clicked on an .rpm file expecting to
> download it. Short of deleting this new varmint, how do I restore
> Mozilla to its rightful place as default browser on my system?

I need this for pine - so I just add the following line to ~/.mailcap
file:

text/html; /usr/bin/mozilla %s ; copiousoutput

> 
> -- Doc
> Robert G. (Doc) Savage, BSE(EE), CISSP, RHCE | Fairview Heights, IL

Could you use the normal signature convention - so that it can be
trimed automatically by mailers? (i.e '-- Doc' -> '--')

Thanks,
Satish




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