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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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