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Chromium doesn't show up to be selected as default browser
I installed Chromium, but can not select it as my default browser. Where does Ubuntu keep the list of applications shown in this menu?
I use Ubuntu 12.04 with Unity as my environment.
I also tried ...
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Change default command line, non-graphical browser?
I have elinks and w3m installed. elinks seems to be the default for using surfaw from the command line---I'd prefer w3m be the default. Is this particular to sr or is this a bashrc kind of setting? ...
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Gwibber facebook login (was virus facebook login)
every minute a google-chrome pages is open with this url
https://www.facebook.com/connect/login_success.html#access_token=.....
Where the token is my authentication token..
This is my ps aux ...
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Web links in Adobe reader opens Firefox even if another browser (Opera, Chrome) is default
I think that title describes my problem clearly. Clicking a hyperlink in Adobe Reader opens Firefox, but I have another browser set as default. Does anyone know a solution?
regards
Jan
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Launch Webapps in custom browser
I'm using Google Chrome as default web-browser because i need Flash ang i've installed Firefox back to use with Webapps, because Chromium, that i tried to use before, launched through script, taking ...
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Changing default browser in xubuntu
xubuntu comes with Firefox as a default browser. I however prefer opera and would like to make it my default browser. Example: I click a link in Thunderbird and would like it to open in Opera and not ...
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What's the difference between x-www-browser and gnome-www-browser?
What's the difference between x-www-browser and gnome-www-browser?
I came across it here: Setting the default browser when update-alternatives fails.
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clicking on link opens blank firefox window
i'm using firefox 14.
When i click a link outside the browser it opens a new firefox window showing google.com(My home page).
I have tried setting into
xdg-settings set default-web-browser ...
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Repair/Restore HTTP/HTTPS Association 12.04
When clicking on links outside of the web browser, my config was launching Chromium, even though Chrome was set to my default. I tried to make changes to my ~/.local/share/applications/defaults.list, ...
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TweetDeck do not open links. Could be set default browser in Adobe Air?
i've installed Ubuntu 12.04 and I’m trying to use TweetDeck. There isn't new version for linux, they suggesting chrome plugin instead, but this solution do not implement identi.ca accounts. So I’ve ...
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External links opening in the non-default browser
I have set Firefox as default web application in Ubuntu, but external links (like clicking a link in Pidgin) still get opened with Opera. Does anyone have a clue on how to fix this?
Thanks.
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How to set Iron as default web browser in Unity2D?
I use Iron as my default browser, but in Unity i did not found the place, where i could set it as default for my user. In System settings is Preferred Applications, but in list of web browsers is just ...
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How can I capture url requests?
I run Firefox with -no-remote so I can use multiple profiles. This means applications which try to open URLs don't work.
Can I setup some form of bash script that will notify me of the attempted URL ...
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How to change the default programs that are associated with every new user that is created?
I am wondering how one would go about changing the default programs that are associated with every new user that is created. For example, Firefox is the default browser for Ubuntu 11.10. In my user ...
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Why do Firefox, Preferred Applications and x-www-browser disagree on default browser?
Firefox claims it's the default browser (Edit -> Preferences -> Advanced -> Check Now), Preferred Application also lists it as the default, but x-www-browser runs Chrome. Is there really more than one ...
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How can I manually change the default web browser? [closed]
Firefox is not showing in system-settings - system info. So I cannot use the menu to choose it.
(I don't want to seem off-topic but I think a little background would be helpful here: The previous ...
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How to set Google Chrome as the default browser?
How can I set Google Chrome as the default browser? If I set it in the browser settings, nothing happens. The browser says it's default, but in preferred applications in Gnome, there's only Firefox to ...
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Why does myPhpAdmin open in a different browser to the one that is set as default?
I have 3 browsers installed on my Ubuntu 11.10, Chrome, Firefox and Opera.
First I had the problem that Software Center did not respect my default browser choice. I fixed that by running:
sudo ...
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Xubuntu 11.10 won't save my settings
I am using Xubuntu 11.10, and every time i reboot my computer, my settings are erased.
Namely my default Browser, Preferred Applications settings and my Touchpad settings.
Does anyone know how to ...
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How do I change my default browser?
is there an option to change my default browser for all my applications in Ubuntu 11.10?
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How do I change the default browser that konsole opens URLs with?
I have google-chrome set as my default web browser in Ubuntu and gnome applications. However, when using konsole, all links open in konqueror, and not google-chrome!
I've tried setting the default ...
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How do I set a “custom” browser as default in Preferred Applications
I'm trying to set up Conkeror as my default browser. However, in the Preferred Applications menu, this is not an option, nor do I see a method of inputting a custom setting/command.
Does anyone know ...
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Link clicked not passed to firefox
When Firefox is set as my default browser, any links cliked in another application open a new blank Firefox window, not a new tab or a new window with the page I want.
Is that a problem with the ...
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Can't set Chromium as default browser
I open Chromium and the browser ask me if I want to set it as my default browser. I click on "set as default" and close the browser.
But when I open Chromium again I get the same question. Ubuntu ...
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Firefox becomes default browser after upgrade. Cannot revert to Google Chrome
Upgraded my notebook to Natty Beta 1 two days ago. All seems to be in order except for a very annoying little thing. I used to have Google Chrome as my default browser, and after the upgrade, this ...
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How do I reset gnome-open/xdg-open to actually open with my preferred browser?
Somehow gnome-open and xdg-open are now hopelessly broken. Setting my default browser in System -> Preferences -> Preferred Applications changes nothing.
When I click on any link that points to a ...
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Set default browser to OPEN browser
I am switching constantly between browsers (three different at the moment). So i was also switching default browsers to open my mail / new links etc...
I also saw that with the command sudo ...
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Command to open a URL?
My question is pretty simple:
Is there a command I can use in bash that will open a specific URL in the default browser?
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How to set which application is launched by xdg-open?
I have run update-alternatives as well as gnome preffered apps selection thing. And all point to have chromium browser as default. Yet when I run xdg-open http://askubuntu.com firefox is launched! ...
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Can I force empathy to open links in default browser?
Recently empathy has switched it's behavior for open links.
At some point it was that links pasted in the IM window where open with whatever program was associated to the mime type of the link's ...
