Re: [hardy] How Do You Get Back to Firefox 2?

2008-02-25 Thread Alexander Sack
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 09:12:24AM -0600, Kenneth Loafman wrote: > Alexander Sack wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 12:29:04PM -0600, Kenneth Loafman wrote: > >> I made the mistake of upgrading to Firefox 3 Beta on Hardy. It has many > >> many problems, but the main one is that you can't launch a

Re: [hardy] How Do You Get Back to Firefox 2?

2008-02-25 Thread Alexander Sack
On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 12:29:04PM -0600, Kenneth Loafman wrote: > I made the mistake of upgrading to Firefox 3 Beta on Hardy. It has many > many problems, but the main one is that you can't launch a URL from > Thunderbird, or elsewhere. You have to copy&paste the URL into the > browser windows.

Re: [hardy] How Do You Get Back to Firefox 2?

2008-02-21 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Thursday 21 February 2008 13:29, Kenneth Loafman wrote: > I made the mistake of upgrading to Firefox 3 Beta on Hardy. It has many > many problems, but the main one is that you can't launch a URL from > Thunderbird, or elsewhere. You have to copy&paste the URL into the > browser windows. [ Are

Re: [hardy] How Do You Get Back to Firefox 2?

2008-02-21 Thread Kenneth Loafman
What I just now found was that when I swapped from 'Custom' back to 'Firefox' the links are now being launched. On my system (a Hardy upgraded from Gutsy), /usr/bin/firefox links to firefox-3.0 which links to /usr/lib/firefox-3.0b3/firefox.sh. I'm guessing the upgrade may have done something diff

Re: [hardy] How Do You Get Back to Firefox 2?

2008-02-21 Thread Matthew Nicholson
You should be able to launch URL's from any application just fine in Firefox 3. Check System->Preferences->Preferred Applications, set Web Browser to Custom, and use '/usr/lib/firefox-3.0b3/firefox "%s" ' for the command (this is assuming you have the Firefox3 beta from the Hardy repos, and not a

[hardy] How Do You Get Back to Firefox 2?

2008-02-21 Thread Kenneth Loafman
I made the mistake of upgrading to Firefox 3 Beta on Hardy. It has many many problems, but the main one is that you can't launch a URL from Thunderbird, or elsewhere. You have to copy&paste the URL into the browser windows. [ Are AOL folks having their revenge? ;-) ] Long story short, its too