2009/9/16 John Matthews <jake...@sky.com>: > 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?) >> >> > Hi, but that is the problem, in my first post I did mention that FF3.5 > is not an option in Preferred Applications, only the old version. The > only browsers that it offers is the old version of FF, Opera and Chromium. >
I might not have made my suggestion clear, sorry. When you choose Custom you type in the command you want to run. As Firefox 3.5 (Shiretoko) is /usr/bin/firefox-3.5 you can enter the command firefox-3.5 %s into the Custom box (the %s might be a %u, I'm on a Windows machine atm). This will then run Firefox 3.5 instead of the default Firefox 3. I do this for running a local (/home/j/bin/firefox) vanilla copy of Minefield (3.7a1pre). -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/