Daniel Drummond wrote: > 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?) >> >> >> > This was brought up in an earlier thread, (by yourself IIRC). My > solution was: > > open a terminal and type the following commands > > $ cd /usr/bin > $ ls -l firefox > > you should see that the firefox file is a link to firefox-3.0 > > then type > > $ sudo rm firefox > > to remove the old link, and then > > $ sudo ln -s firefox-3.5 firefox > > to create a new link to firefox 3.5. When apps want to run firefox, > they run /usr/bin/firefox, which then links to the version you want. > > Dan > > > Hi Dan,
thank you for the commands, I got all the way to the last command, adding the 3.5 in, and it says command refused. I think its because my FF3.5 says shiretoko on it. John -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
