From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 4 21:21:40 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15A2716A41F for ; Tue, 4 Oct 2005 21:21:40 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from djh@nebcorp.com) Received: from ratchet.nebcorp.com (ratchet.nebcorp.com [205.217.153.72]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD5E643D45 for ; Tue, 4 Oct 2005 21:21:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from djh@nebcorp.com) Received: by ratchet.nebcorp.com (Postfix, from userid 1014) id 9B06CD9882; Tue, 4 Oct 2005 14:21:39 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2005 14:21:39 -0700 From: Danny Howard To: Garrett Cooper Message-ID: <20051004212139.GD564@ratchet.nebcorp.com> References: <43399738.70000@gish.demon.nl> <4339A5B9.9090803@u.washington.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4339A5B9.9090803@u.washington.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Loop: djhoward@uiuc.edu Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Firefox won't stay as default browser ... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2005 21:21:40 -0000 On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 01:04:09PM -0700, Garrett Cooper wrote: > Kiffin Gish wrote: > > >Every time I fire up firefox it claims it is not the default browser. > >If I click on yes to make it the default browser or go into Prferences > >| General and hit the Default Browser [Check Now]-button and/or I > >restart firefox, I still get the message that it is NOT the default > >browser. > >Nothing I do helps -- what got stuch?! > > > What desktop environment/window manager are you using? I use fvwm2. It is seriously obnoxious. But I see another posted a thing to turn the checking bit off, so I'll do that. :) Silly Mozilla ... -danny