Change Sensible-Browser
Some of My Apps Use the Script Sensible-Browser to Open Web Pages. This Script Opens /Etc/Alternatives/Gnome-Www-Browser or /Etc/Alternatives/X-Www-Browser. on...
Some of my apps use the script sensible-browser to open web pages. This script opens /etc/alternatives/gnome-www-browser or /etc/alternatives/x-www-browser. On my machine, these two are symbolic links to Google Chrome (which I rarely use). I want to use Firefox instead, so I made them into symbolic links to firefox.
Now if I use sensible-browser, Firefox is used. However, for some inexplicable reason the symbolic links are regularly reverted back to point to Google Chrome!
What is the correct way to change sensible-browser?
1 Answer
If you want to change gnome-www-browser to point to say /usr/bin/firefox
You can do
sudo update-alternatives --set gnome-www-browser /usr/bin/firefox
Similarly you can do the same to the other one also i think.
Edit:
Or..
You can do
sudo update-alternatives --config gnome-www-browser
which gives a list of all the browsers to choose from, from which you can select one of them.
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