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JacquesOlivier

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Registered: 2021-02-12

Posts: 5

firefox-esr as default browser and favorite browser for all users

Hi,

I have a fresh install of Ubuntu with XFCE4.
I want that all the users have firefox-esr as default web browser.

I tried to change the value in /etc/xdg-xubuntu/xfce4/helpers.rc from WebBrowser=firefox to WebBrowser=firefox-esr

But it did nothing for the users.

Any ideas ?

I need to do that by script.

alcornoqui

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Registered: 2014-07-28

Posts: 832

Re: firefox-esr as default browser and favorite browser for all users

I'd say something like:

sudo xdg-settings set default-web-browser firefox-esr.desktop

and/or:

sudo update-alternatives --set x-www-browser firefox-esr.desktop
sudo update-alternatives --set gnome-www-browser firefox-esr.desktop

In any case, you can check if Firefox ESR is registered as eligible for those commands with:

update-alternatives --list x-www-browser
update-alternatives --list gnome-www-browser

See https://wiki.debian.org/DefaultWebBrowser and https://askubuntu.com/questions/79305/h … 820#367820 for reference and discussion.

JacquesOlivier

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Registered: 2021-02-12

Posts: 5

Re: firefox-esr as default browser and favorite browser for all users

Hi @alcornoqui

sudo xdg-settings set default-web-browser firefox-esr.desktop

Is usefull but only for the current user, bnot all users.

And the <code> update-alternatives </code> returns :

 update-alternatives --set x-www-browser /usr/share/applications/firefox-esr.desktop 

update-alternatives: error: the alternativ /usr/share/applications/firefox-esr.desktop for x-www-browser is not registered; no configuration

Last edited by JacquesOlivier (2021-03-19 09:11:44)