On Sun, Jul 04, 2010 at 12:11:08PM +0200, Simon Ruderich wrote:

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> I'm not sure how it's handled by Ubuntu (I only know Debian), but
> it looks like urlscan calls sensible-browser, which calls the
> "correct" browser. You should be able to change it with
> 
>     update-alternatives --config x-www-browser
> 
> Another possibility could be, that $DISPLAY is not set, thus
> sensible-browser thinks it can't launch a X based browser (I'm
> not entirely sure, I'm no expert regarding sensible-browser).

All this is well and good but my question was why is setting the browser
environment variable necessary with FF 3.6.6 when it wasn't with 3.0.x?
I'm beginning to think it's a FF problem. The devs may have broken a
compatibility with urlscan. 

> 
> Hope this helps,
> Simon
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