On Mar 5, 2012, at 8:57 AM, John H Palmieri wrote: > This works for me: > > export SAGE_BROWSER='open -a /Applications/Firefox.app' > > (Change this to the path to the firefox app, if necessary.) The documentation > apparently needs to be fixed, at least as far as OS X is concerned. > > Oh, a few more things, in case people are reading this who aren't that > familiar with the Terminal app and bash: you can give the command > > export SAGE_BROWSER='open -a /Applications/Firefox.app' > > at the shell prompt and it will have immediate effect, so you can test it > right away. Second, if you instead change .bashrc, you should start a new > terminal window for the changes to take effect. You can test whether it has > done anything by typing 'export' and seeing if SAGE_BROWSER is listed with > the appropriate setting.
Thanks for your help, John. It turned out to be more complicated, trying to understand the deep mysteries of the bash shell and how Terminal is configured on my system. In spite of what the man page for bash says, Terminal seems to be ignoring the .bashrc file in my home directory, and instead reads .bash_profile. I was finally able to get Sage and notebook() to start Firefox by putting the export SAGE_BROWSER line into .bash_profile, not .bashrc. This has taken much more time than I hoped for, but at least my problem is now solved. Jim -- To post to this group, send email to sage-support@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to sage-support+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-support URL: http://www.sagemath.org
