Howto change default system browser for all users?
Howto change default system browser for all users?
I am looking for a way to change the default system browser from Mozilla 1.4 to firefox 1.0PR for all users on the system. Is this designated in a file somewhere? I also need all new suers that are added to have this browser as default.
hi,
You mean, when a shortcut is clicked, firefox is run right? I was in a similar situation sometime back and wanted the default browser to be Galeon. So what I did was, rename the mozilla binary to .bak and use the original name as a simlink to galeon. This should work for you too...
hope this helps...
You mean, when a shortcut is clicked, firefox is run right? I was in a similar situation sometime back and wanted the default browser to be Galeon. So what I did was, rename the mozilla binary to .bak and use the original name as a simlink to galeon. This should work for you too...
hope this helps...
Well, there is a "Preferred Applications" utility even in FC2 and before where you can select a default browser, but that is per user. This is gconf setting (see "/desktop/gnome/applications/browser" in the gconf-editor gui). I think you can manipulate these settings from a gconf command line like to see the value you could:
$ gconftool-2 -g /desktop/gnome/applications/browser/exec
and to set a new value you could:
$ gconftool-2 --type string --set /desktop/gnome/applications/browser/exec "firefox"
You could execute this somewhere in one of the system logon scripts if you wanted to force this on all your users. Do a "man gconftool-2" for more information. Friggin' Miguel is trying to turn GNOME into Windows it seems. Why can't we just stick with good old simple config files. KDE still does it right (even though I do use GNOME at the moment).
$ gconftool-2 -g /desktop/gnome/applications/browser/exec
and to set a new value you could:
$ gconftool-2 --type string --set /desktop/gnome/applications/browser/exec "firefox"
You could execute this somewhere in one of the system logon scripts if you wanted to force this on all your users. Do a "man gconftool-2" for more information. Friggin' Miguel is trying to turn GNOME into Windows it seems. Why can't we just stick with good old simple config files. KDE still does it right (even though I do use GNOME at the moment).
I've noticed that apps take a longer time to load when using a minimalistic desktop environment. eg: Window Maker is very fast and light weight, but running an app takes a significantly longer time than it would in KDE or Gnome. Guess this is due to the fact that most of the libraries are shared with the desktop and applications dont have to load them in KDE since KDE would have already loaded it all in the memory after logging in...OTOH, A minimal desktop doesnt have the extra stuff, so its upto the apps to call the libs...
That could very well be true if you are loading GNOME or KDE apps in your minimalist window manager. I don't use GNOME or KDE apps on the machine I use Enlightenment on (I use Eterm, Netview, Firefox, etc) and they load very fast. If all of the apps I used were KDE apps I would use KDE as my DE, if I were using GNOME apps I would use GNOME.agent007 wrote:I've noticed that apps take a longer time to load when using a minimalistic desktop environment. eg: Window Maker is very fast and light weight, but running an app takes a significantly longer time than it would in KDE or Gnome. Guess this is due to the fact that most of the libraries are shared with the desktop and applications dont have to load them in KDE since KDE would have already loaded it all in the memory after logging in...OTOH, A minimal desktop doesnt have the extra stuff, so its upto the apps to call the libs...