Xfce and web browsers

[Bernhard Walle]

* Erik Harrison <erikharrison at gmail.com> [2007-01-07 05:11]:
> On 1/6/07, TerryJ <listmail at exemail.com.au> wrote:
> > I ran into an odd problem when I nominated Swiftfox as the preferred
> > browser in Xfce.
> >
> > Whenever I clicked on a link in Thunderbird or the file browser
> > (Thunar), which should have opened a new tab in the last active Swiftfox
> > window, I was instead getting a new, empty Swiftfox window.
> >
> > To overcome the problem, I have nominated Mozilla Firefox as the
> > preferred browser and altered "firefox" and "mozilla-firefox" in
> > /usr/bin so that they refer to swiftfox.
> >
> > I should add that Xfce renders the swiftfox command as swiftfox "%s"  It
> > adds the same strange suffix to thunderbird. Question
> >
> 
> %s is the argument being passed. It's substituted.
> 
> You've upgraded to Firefox 2.0 (err, Swiftfox), which has as the

Swiftfox? What's this?


       Bernhard
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