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July 31, 2009

Setting Firefox 3.5 as default browser system wide in ubuntu

Some applications like TweetDeck don’t respect gnome preferred applications settings and continue to use the older Firefox 3.1 instead of the new one 3.5 when opening links.

This is because

/usr/bin/firefox is currently pointing (like a shortcut) to
/usr/bin/firefox-3.0

To change this to 3.5 enter the following on the command line

sudo ln -sf /usr/bin/firefox-3.5 /usr/bin/firefox

If you want to change it back:

sudo ln -sf /usr/bin/firefox-3.0 /usr/bin/firefox

This will work for Firefox 3.5 as well as Shiretoko 3.5
This will also fix same issues with other Adobe Air applications

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Posted by acuervo. Filed under Firefox, Linux, terminal, Ubuntu.

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