Bug 103546 – firefox-bin-1.0.6-r2 doesn't have button to set default browser

• Product: Gentoo Linux
• Status: VERIFIED INVALID

[Description Shigeru Akiyama 2005-08-23 21:06:25 UTC]

There is no button to set FireFox as default browser in `General' section of
Edit/Preferences, between `Languages' and `Connect'.

This is for `firefox-bin-1.0.6-r2', on amd64 platform.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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root:~# emerge info
Portage 2.0.51.22-r2 (default-linux/amd64/2005.0, gcc-3.4.4, glibc-2.3.5-r1,
2.6.12-gentoo-r9 x86_64)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.12-gentoo-r9 x86_64 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.6.13
dev-lang/python:     2.3.5
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.12
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.59-r6
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.5
sys-devel/binutils:  2.15.92.0.2-r10
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.18-r1
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.11-r2
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=nocona -O2 -pipe"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/env
/usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config
/usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/
/usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/
/usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d"
CXXFLAGS="-march=nocona -O2 -pipe"
DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles"
FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="ftp://ftp.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/GENTOO http://mirror.gentoo.gr.jp
http://gentoo.gg3.net/ http://mirror.averse.net/pub/gentoo/
http://gentoo.channelx.biz/ http://gentoo.arcticnetwork.ca/
http://cudlug.cudenver.edu/gentoo/ http://ftp.gentoo.or.kr/
ftp://gg3.net/pub/linux/gentoo/ http://gentoo.mirrors.easynews.com/linux/gentoo/"
LINGUAS="en ja"
MAKEOPTS="-j2"
PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp"
PORTDIR="/usr/portage"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="amd64 X alsa avi berkdb bitmap-fonts cdr crypt cups curl eds encode esd fam
foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 imagemagick imlib ipv6
java jpeg kde libwww lzw lzw-tiff mad motif mp3 mpeg mysql ncurses nls ogg
opengl pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline ruby sdl slang spell ssl
tcltk tcpd tetex tiff truetype-fonts type1-fonts usb userlocales vorbis xine
xml2 xmms xpm xv zlib linguas_en linguas_ja userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc"
Unset:  ASFLAGS, CTARGET, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, PORTDIR_OVERLAY

[Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2005-12-22 21:40:19 UTC]

Hmmm? I'm afraid this is not Windows.

[Comment 2 Shigeru Akiyama 2005-12-23 03:09:19 UTC]

(In reply to comment #1)
> Hmmm? I'm afraid this is not Windows.
> 

Please open Edit/Preferences of 32-bit version of FireFox;
there is such a button.

[Comment 3 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2005-12-23 08:29:43 UTC]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Please open Edit/Preferences of 32-bit version of FireFox;
> there is such a button.

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Default_browser#Linux

[Comment 4 Shigeru Akiyama 2005-12-23 15:00:58 UTC]

(In reply to comment #3)
> (In reply to comment #2)
> > Please open Edit/Preferences of 32-bit version of FireFox;
> > there is such a button.
> 
> http://kb.mozillazine.org/Default_browser#Linux
> 

Unless a default browser is set, you can't click URL link in an e-mail opened in Thunderbird; Thunderbird wouldn't know which browser to activate.

Similarly, you need to set a default e-mail client for FireFox (in Thunderbird), otherwise an e-mail link in a Webpage would be a dead link.

Obviously, Mozilla doesn't have such a problem.

[Comment 5 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2005-12-23 15:19:43 UTC]

(In reply to comment #4)
> > http://kb.mozillazine.org/Default_browser#Linux
> 
> Unless a default browser is set, you can't click URL link in an e-mail opened
> in Thunderbird; Thunderbird wouldn't know which browser to activate.
> 
> Similarly, you need to set a default e-mail client for FireFox (in
> Thunderbird), otherwise an e-mail link in a Webpage would be a dead link.
> 
> Obviously, Mozilla doesn't have such a problem.

Obviously that's why I posted the above link. 

[Comment 6 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2005-12-23 15:20:11 UTC]

CLOSED, don't reopen pointless bugs, please.

[Comment 7 Jory A. Pratt 2005-12-23 15:29:10 UTC]

Please read upstream documentation. It tells you how to setup thunderbird to open firefox when clicking a link.