On 31 Jan 2002, Mario Vukelic wrote: > On Thu, 2002-01-31 at 18:50, Paul E Condon wrote: > > it brings up the home page, not the page pointed to by the highlighted URL. > > > > What is the correct way to select a new default browser? > > Hmm, I don't know about the version of gnome in potato, but in sid > (gnome 1.4) you would open gnome control-center. Locate the URL handlers > entry under Document Handlers. For protocols "http" and "https" set > commands to use to < mozilla "%s" > or < galeon "%s" > (without the > arrows). Other things you can do: protocol ftp set to < gftp "%s" >, > mailto to evolution "%s" (this won't work for mozilla mailto: URLs > though, only galeon) if you have those installed.
No, at least on my system, this still leaves the same problem--it brings up the correct browser, but opens the default home page, not the highlighted URL.---b.
