[Bug 1624022] Re: Alias 'browse' to sensible-browser

[Jeremy Bicha]

I think sensible-browser is obsolete and I'd like to see it go away.
Most things use mimetypes these days but it's the odd thing in the
Debian repositories that still uses sensible-browser that's annoying. As
far as I know, there is not a GUI way to configure the Debian
alternatives that sensible-browser uses.

On my computer:

xdg-open http://www.google.com/         opens Firefox
gvfs-open http://www.google.com/        opens Firefox
sensible-browser http://www.google.com/ opens Epiphany :(

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Title:
  Alias 'browse' to sensible-browser

Status in sensible-utils package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress

Bug description:
  The 'sensible-browser' command is very useful, but it's a bit unwieldy
  to use everywhere in docs. How about aliasing the simple 'browse' to
  sensible-browser, so I can recommend things like:

    sudo apt install foo; browse http://locahost:2022/

  That would be crisp clean and friendly for current users.

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