Anssi Saari <anssi.sa...@debian-user.mail.kapsi.fi> wrote:
> Chris Green <c...@isbd.net> writes:
>
> > However, when I install epiphany it takes over every single thing that
> > web browsers can do which is very frustrating, I only want to run it
> > explicitly for testing. Is there any way to prevent the install
> > changing all the mailcap and mime settings etc.?
>
> What I've done is configure "everything" (in my case that means urxvt,
> Konsole, Emacs, Thunderbird and not much else) to use x-www-browser and
> then I use update-alternatives to configure what that means. Firefox in
> my case.
>
I had x-www-browser set to vivaldi but web links still got opened in
epiphany, I tried changing just about every setting I could find for a
browser to vivaldi but I still got epiphany.
> I guess this can still work when using a non-Debian browser like
> Vivaldi, maybe some extra work is needed to make update-alternatives
> aware of Vivaldi, I don't really know.
No, it's aware of vivaldi, with epiphany removed now I see:-
chris$ update-alternatives --config x-www-browser
There are 2 choices for the alternative x-www-browser (providing
/usr/bin/x-www-browser).
Selection Path Priority Status
------------------------------------------------------------
* 0 /usr/bin/vivaldi-stable 200 auto mode
1 /usr/bin/hv3 10 manual mode
2 /usr/bin/vivaldi-stable 200 manual mode
Installing epiphany just added it as a choice but left vivaldi as the
configured browser, but still epiphany grabbed everything.
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Chris Green
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