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bug #8996: Browser is difficult to change

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Submitted on:  Tue 18 May 2004 08:31:04 AM UTC  
 
Category: NoneSeverity: 3 - Normal
Item Group: BugStatus: Fixed
Privacy: PublicAssigned to: None
Open/Closed: Closed

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Sun 04 Jul 2004 10:05:27 PM UTC, comment #3:

Could you add at least a little blurb about gnome-control-center being the application to change those settings?

Daniel Webb <danielwebb>
Sun 04 Jul 2004 09:41:07 PM UTC, comment #2:

Straw is a GNOME app, so it uses GNOME settings. The "custom web browser" field was removed in the devel version.

Lucas Nussbaum <lnu>
Project Member
Tue 18 May 2004 08:47:27 AM UTC, comment #1:

(I am the original submitter of this bug)
My current solution to this problem is to create a bash script called mozilla-newtab with the following:

#!/bin/sh
mozilla -remote "openURL($1, new-tab)"

and then set "mozilla-newtab %s" as the browser in the Gnome preferences. This is a dirty kludge, but it works.

Daniel Webb <danielwebb>
Tue 18 May 2004 08:31:04 AM UTC, original submission:

It isn't clear at all from the README file what to do to change the browser setting. From looking in the mailing list I found that it's talking about Gnome settings, but it doesn't say that in the README. Also, I'm using KDE so that doesn't do me a whole lot of good. So I see in the mail archive that I should use gnome-default-applications-properties, so I auto-apt search for it and apt-get install gnome-control-center. Now I can change the browser to Mozilla, but it seems like I should be able to put this in the "Custom Web Browser" field:

mozilla -remote openURL(%s)

but I get a Window in Mozilla that says:
"Your request for http://%s/ could not be fulfilled<...>"

What I really want to do is open the link in a new tab of the already-open Mozilla, which should be possible with:

mozilla -remote openURL(%s, new-tab)

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