I just upgraded to Ubuntu Oneiric 11.10, and aside from being forced to abandon Gnome 2 for Unity or Gnome 3, I found an annoying bug that took me a while to fix. Although I have set up Firefox as my default web browser, I was finding that sometimes Epiphany would get launched instead. Specifically this problem turned up in my app PenguinTV.<\/p>\n
The reason for this is that although there is a per-user “preferred application” setting, there is also a system-wide setting that can only be changed on the command line. Run this command in a terminal:<\/p>\n
This will give you a list of browsers to choose from, one of which will be the one you actually want.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I just upgraded to Ubuntu Oneiric 11.10, and aside from being forced to abandon Gnome 2 for Unity or Gnome 3, I found an annoying bug that took me a while to fix. Although I have set up Firefox as my default web browser, I was finding that sometimes Epiphany would get launched instead. Specifically … Continue reading “Ubuntu sometimes launches the wrong web browser”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1075"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1075"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1075\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1078,"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1075\/revisions\/1078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ywwg.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}sudo update-alternatives --config gnome-www-browser<\/code><\/p>\n