On 08/12/14 22:06, Colomban Wendling wrote:
Anyway, the default browser Geany uses is "firefox", but Ubuntu has a history of changing this default to something they want.
On my system it is set to ‘sensible-browser’ by default. The sensible-utils facility is like the ‘lite version’ of the alternatives facility.
I’m not entirely sure what relevance sensible-utils has versus the alternatives system in the Debuntu world — it might be vestigal or it might still do something that alternatives don’t. Either way, it’s probably an upstream Debian change.
The best option is, as Colomban said, just to set it to x-www-browser and use update-alternatives to configure that to Firefox, or just set firefox directly. Of course, uninstalling Chrome is the obvious brute force solution but I’m sure you want to test the HTML you are writing across browsers.
Take care,
James