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Beartooth
beartooth at comcast.net
Fri Nov 29 17:58:52 UTC 2013
On Thu, 28 Nov 2013 14:29:58 -0600, g wrote:
> On 11/28/2013 01:09 PM, Beartooth wrote:
>> Anyway, I changed dillo to Dillo both in Alpine's settings and on my
>> PC, and links still open in Firefox. :-
>
> applying a little 'swag' because i use firefox in kde de.
>
> does 'dillo' have a configuration to mark it as _default_?
Not that I could find.
> open firefox, in url bar, enter;
>
> about:config
>
> search for;
>
> checkdefaultbrowser
>
> note setting.
It shows Status default type boolean Value false -- as I think it
should.
> open link;
>
> http://kb.mozillazine.org/Firefox_:_FAQs_:_About:config_Entries
OK, I got that far.
> <ctrl+f>, enter;
Did those; don't see anything happen.
> checkdefaultbrowser
>
> to find setting description.
Here, if not before, you lose me. What was "<ctrl+f>, enter"
supposed to do??
> more about firefox as default;
>
> http://kb.mozillazine.org/Default_browser
You do understand, nicht wahr?, that I am trying to get *RID* of
the default to Firefox??
> i do not know about 'xfrec4' and 'Settings->Preferred Applications',
> but if it is close to kde de, these settings should have your default
> set as first;
>
> text:
> html = *.htm, *.html, *.xhtml
>
> application:
> vnd.mozilla.xul+xml = *.xul x-font-ttx = *.ttx x-gnome-saved-search =
> *.savedsearch x-mozilla-bookmarks x-ufraw = *.ufraw
>
> also, kde has a 'system settings' which has setup for 'default
> applications', where in 'web browser' is set.
> [which may be similar to xfrec4's 'settings']
.
In Fedora, at [Main Menu xfce4] > Settings > Preferred
Applications, I have Web Browser set to Dillo. If I can get the machine
to respect that, I'll be in clover.
--
Beartooth Staffwright, Neo-Redneck Not Quite Clueless Power User
Remember I have precious (very precious!) little idea where up is.
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