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
> 

as I suspected the alternatives. Mine got corrupted via google-chrom
installation. It took me a while as I already mentioned to get it properly
setup. After all I have never messed up with update-alternatives and its
logic

I usually extract latest firefox in /opt/custom

I do 
        ln -s /opt/custom/firefox-VERSION /opt/custom/firefox

After chrome installed, it was setup to chrome, so I had to clean up and set
up alternative for the custom firefox

update-alternatives --install /etc/alternatives/firefox \ 
        x-www-browser /opt/custom/firefox/firefox 300
update-alternatives --set x-www-browser /opt/custom/firefox/firefox

For the TDE applications you can set it via the Control Center as you
pointed time ago.

I never become a friend to iceweasel as well, but firefox is great. It
requires though a manual update of flashplayer, but it is also 2-3 commands
in the console

regards