On Monday 11 January 2016 09:55:52 Lisi Reisz wrote:

> On Monday 11 January 2016 13:29:28 Gene Heskett wrote:
> > I just ran iceweasel to check, it /thinks/ its the default! �But
> > in /etc/alternatives www-browser -> lynx
> > and x-www-browser -> vivaldi
> >
> > And, there is no reference to iceweasel anyplace in
> > /etc/alternatives...
>
> I can vouch that once you have made the mistake of setting Iceweasel
> as default browser you can't undo it.  See below:
>
> "The way to 'undo' Firefox being the default browser is always to set
> another browser as the default browser."
>
> https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/980646
>
> But that only works if the browser you want to choose allows it! 
> Chrome says it doesn't and Konqueror seems not to.
>
> But in practice, the fact that Iceweasel now thinks that it is my
> default browser (I set it to default to find out for Gene's benefit
> how to unset it) doesn't seem to have much effect.  If it does start
> to have an effect, I shall uninstall it, its conf. files, its hidden
> files etc. and reinstall it. I can only advise you to do the same,
> Gene - and next time I want to try something out for a similar reason
> I shan't risk doing it on my desktop machine.  I couldn't believe that
> "Set as Default" couldn't just be _undone_ if one wanted!!!  So I set
> it as default in order to unset it - and am stuck.
>
> So, Gene:  Uninstall Iceweasel.  Nuke Mozilla and Iceweasel from your
> machine, every last scrap.  And if you have a reason why you really
> want Iceweasel, reinstall it *from* *the* *repositories*.
>
> Lisi

I looked at that, but it takes a lot of stuff with it.  And I'm not 110% 
sure it would put them back on a reinstall.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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