LXDE how to set default browser

[lynn]

12.1 LXDE
Firefox is the default which doesn't make sense for LXDE.

e.g. chromium says: Chromium cannot determine or set the default browser.
None of the google suggestions work:-(

Can it be done?

Thanks,
L x

[Ricardo Chung]

Post by lynn
12.1 LXDE
Firefox is the default which doesn't make sense for LXDE.
e.g. chromium says: Chromium cannot determine or set the default browser.
None of the google suggestions work:-(
Can it be done?
Thanks,
L x

Try Midori browser. It is lighter, faster and minimalistic too. It mostly
appropriated for a lightweight desktop environment.

Regards,

[Wolfgang Rosenauer]

Post by lynn
12.1 LXDE
Firefox is the default which doesn't make sense for LXDE.

Why doesn't it make sense?


Wolfgang

[lynn]

Post by Wolfgang Rosenauer

Post by lynn
12.1 LXDE
Firefox is the default which doesn't make sense for LXDE.

Why doesn't it make sense?
Wolfgang

Firefox is too big a drain on resources.
L x

[Wolfgang Rosenauer]

Post by lynn

Post by Wolfgang Rosenauer

Post by lynn
12.1 LXDE
Firefox is the default which doesn't make sense for LXDE.

Why doesn't it make sense?
Wolfgang

Firefox is too big a drain on resources.

Indeed it's a full modern HTML5 capable browser. If you don't need that
you might have some smaller options but compared to other browsers of
the same league I'd like to see hard numbers if you got some.


Wolfgang

[lynn]

Post by Ricardo Chung

Post by lynn
12.1 LXDE
Firefox is the default which doesn't make sense for LXDE.
e.g. chromium says: Chromium cannot determine or set the default browser.
None of the google suggestions work:-(
Can it be done?
Thanks,
L x

Try Midori browser. It is lighter, faster and minimalistic too. It mostly
appropriated for a lightweight desktop environment.
Regards,

OMG that is so cute. Love it:-)

But, the question remains, how do I set it to be the default?
Thanks,
L x

[Anton Aylward]

Post by Wolfgang Rosenauer

Post by lynn

Post by Wolfgang Rosenauer

Post by lynn
12.1 LXDE
Firefox is the default which doesn't make sense for LXDE.

Why doesn't it make sense?
Wolfgang

Firefox is too big a drain on resources.

Indeed it's a full modern HTML5 capable browser. If you don't need that
you might have some smaller options but compared to other browsers of
the same league I'd like to see hard numbers if you got some.

Apparently Midori supports HTML5, but see

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_web_browsers

[Brian K. White]

Post by lynn
12.1 LXDE
Firefox is the default which doesn't make sense for LXDE.

That is arguable.
Not saying it's wrong, just arguable.
Chrome does start up faster, which may be enough to make the case right
there, but it can eat crazy more cpu when running.

https://plus.google.com/118440353893255425460/posts/1cdbX4EHSa3

Chrome was eating all available cpu running a pure javascript animation
(no flash) on a page that was in a tab that wasn't visible.

Firefox used no cpu for the same page if the tab was not in the
foreground or if the firefox window was minimized. It used slightly less
cpu for the same page even when the tab was visible.

Just an anecdote of course. Maybe the page is poorly written and could
have included it's own code to detect when it wasn't in the foreground
and pause itself, maybe firefox is taking liberties halting javascript
code that it has no business halting, etc..

[lynn]

Post by Brian K. White

Post by lynn
12.1 LXDE
Firefox is the default which doesn't make sense for LXDE.

That is arguable.
Not saying it's wrong, just arguable.

OK, we could discuss that later. All I need for now is to be able to
click a link in an e-mail and open it with what I choose rather than
Firefox.
Any ideas anyone?
L x

[Will Stephenson]

Post by lynn

Post by Brian K. White

Post by lynn
12.1 LXDE
Firefox is the default which doesn't make sense for LXDE.

That is arguable.
Not saying it's wrong, just arguable.

OK, we could discuss that later. All I need for now is to be able to
click a link in an e-mail and open it with what I choose rather than
Firefox.
Any ideas anyone?
L x

I doubt LXDE has anything to do with this setting, since it doesn't have its
own mailer (right?) Check the config of your mailer itself.

Will
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[Wolfgang Rosenauer]

Post by Will Stephenson

Post by lynn

Post by Brian K. White

Post by lynn
12.1 LXDE
Firefox is the default which doesn't make sense for LXDE.

That is arguable.
Not saying it's wrong, just arguable.

OK, we could discuss that later. All I need for now is to be able to
click a link in an e-mail and open it with what I choose rather than
Firefox.
Any ideas anyone?
L x

I doubt LXDE has anything to do with this setting, since it doesn't have its
own mailer (right?) Check the config of your mailer itself.

Indeed the main question is which mailer you are talking about.


Wolfgang

[lynn]

Post by Wolfgang Rosenauer

Post by Will Stephenson
I doubt LXDE has anything to do with this setting, since it doesn't have its
own mailer (right?) Check the config of your mailer itself.

Indeed the main question is which mailer you are talking about.

tb

But it's also the case if I click a link anywhere else e.g. in a
presentation.
L x

[Wolfgang Rosenauer]

Post by lynn

Post by Wolfgang Rosenauer

Post by Will Stephenson
I doubt LXDE has anything to do with this setting, since it doesn't
have its
own mailer (right?) Check the config of your mailer itself.

Indeed the main question is which mailer you are talking about.

tb
But it's also the case if I click a link anywhere else e.g. in a
presentation.

Yes, but the way how apps figure out what to do differs.
So the following should work for Thunderbird at least.

Thunderbird asks Gio and if that fails GConf.

For GIO the way to (manually) set the defaults is in
~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list

Mine looks like this:

[Default Applications]
x-scheme-handler/http=firefox.desktop
x-scheme-handler/https=firefox.desktop
x-scheme-handler/news=thunderbird.desktop
x-scheme-handler/snews=thunderbird.desktop
x-scheme-handler/nntp=thunderbird.desktop

[Added Associations]
x-scheme-handler/http=seamonkey.desktop;firefox.desktop;
x-scheme-handler/https=seamonkey.desktop;firefox.desktop;
x-scheme-handler/news=thunderbird.desktop;
x-scheme-handler/snews=thunderbird.desktop;
x-scheme-handler/nntp=thunderbird.desktop;


Wolfgang