[Gllug] Click that URL

[Doug Winter]

On Fri 04 Jun Peter Childs wrote:
>    Within mozilla-thunderbird (running on debian) if I clock on a url 
> in an email like
> 
> http://www.gllug.org.uk/
> 
> I get the web page up on Links at home, If I do this at work I  get 
> Konqueror. How do I change this in both locations to load my favourite 
> browser (firefox in this case)

There's lots of places this can be configured unfortunately.

In debian there is an alternative 'www-browser' that you can change:

    # update-alternatives --config www-browser

That's the console one.  There's also x-www-browser for an X11 browser.

ESR is championing a BROWSER environment variable, that is supported in
some stuff:

    http://www.catb.org/~esr/BROWSER/

I imagine KDE and Gnome also have their own way of configuring it too.  

Finally, I imagine some applications might check the mailcap
($HOME/.mailcap then /etc/mailcap) for text/html.

Cheers,

Doug.

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