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turn off firefox as default

Asked by Mike Smith

I am using Xubuntu 10.04. Google Chrome as my browser of choice. Choice set at system level and within Chrome Firefox also installed, but I don't use it). When using OO Word Processor, it insists on using Firefox for browsing activity. How can I force OO to use Chrome?

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George Standish (george-standish-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#1

Mike,

I'm not sure how Xubuntu will differ from Ubuntu in this case?!

In Ubuntu (Lucid) OpenOffice does open my default browser, Chromium.

Is there an equivalent to System / Preferences / Preferred Applications in Xubuntu? Is so, for Web Browser does it show the path to your Chrome browser?

Best of luck (sorry for my lack of Xubuntu knowledge),
George

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Mike Smith (mesmith-petaluma) said : 		#2

Yes there is a system level app preference and it is set to Chrome.

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Mike Smith (mesmith-petaluma) said : 		#3

Solved it with update-alternatives terminal command.

Thanks for trying to help.

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George Standish (george-standish-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#4

Glad you found the fix :)

Nicely done,
George

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Rocko (rockorequin) said : 		#5

Some extra info: in Gnome, in addition to the system level preference (Sys/Prefs/Prefered Applications), it seems there are two alternatives entries for the default browser:

gnome-www-browser
x-www-browser

I found and changed gnome-www-browser first but it didn't fix the problem. (I had the opposite problem - chrome set itself up as the preferred browser everywhere and I wanted to change it back to firefox.)