Latest Firefox 3.6.6 - I don't like it...

[Tony Pursell]

On Thu, 2010-07-01 at 17:32 +1000, Basil Chupin wrote:
> On 01/07/10 02:13, Colin Law wrote:
> > On 30 June 2010 16:16, Basil Chupin<blchupin at iinet.net.au>  wrote:
> >    
> >> On 30/06/10 23:45, Tony Pursell wrote:
> >>      
> >>> ...
> >>> I s it just a Thunderbird problem? Â For instance, open a terminal and
> >>> type in http://www.ubuntulinux.org then right click it and select Open
> >>> Link. Â What do you get? Â If you get an error, check what you have in
> >>> System>  Â Preferences>  Â Preferred Applications.
> >>>
> >>> Tony
> >>>
> >>>        
> >> Thanks, Tony, but as I stated, the path to FF is correct. And when I do
> >> what you just suggested (although I think what you suggested is not
> >> quite right) I get an error, "No such file or directory" even though I
> >> can start FF from ALT-F2 using the correct path (/usr/bin/firefox -
> >> where FF is a symlink to where it actually resides).
> >>      
> > Tony's suggestion (right click a link in terminal and select Open
> > Link) works fine for me.
> >
> > Colin
> >    
> 
> Then my installation must be totally out-of-whack with everyone else's 
> because even doing this does nothing here :-( .
> 
> BC
> 

Do you have Firefox as your preferred browser in System > Preferences >
Preferred Applications?  Or do you have 'Custom'.  If you have Custom,
this will give you this behaviour.

Tony
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