Jonathon Fernyhough wrote: > 2009/9/16 John Matthews <jake...@sky.com>: > >> I want to make my Firefox 3.5 my default browser. I have looked in the >> System>Preferences>Prefered Applications and it only shows the older >> version of Firefox. >> >> I unticked the make Firefox Default button in the old version, and then >> opened the new version and ticked the box, but nothing has happened. I >> closed FF down, and then reopened it, and its still not opening FF 3.5 >> when clicking on links in e-mails, it opens the old version. >> >> How can I make FF 3.5 my default. >> >> Thanks >> >> John. >> >> > > Two suggestions would be to either remove firefox3 or to use the > custom option in Preferred Applications to specify firefox3.5. > > (Are there any other xdg-defaults settings?) > > This was brought up in an earlier thread, (by yourself IIRC). My solution was:
open a terminal and type the following commands $ cd /usr/bin $ ls -l firefox you should see that the firefox file is a link to firefox-3.0 then type $ sudo rm firefox to remove the old link, and then $ sudo ln -s firefox-3.5 firefox to create a new link to firefox 3.5. When apps want to run firefox, they run /usr/bin/firefox, which then links to the version you want. Dan -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
