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

[Basil Chupin]

On 01/07/10 20:12, Tony Pursell wrote:
> 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.
>    

As always, FF and TB are set to be the preferred internet applications 
after an installation - so, yes, it is not Custom.

BC

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