Default browser setting
Havoc Pennington
hp at redhat.com
Wed Jul 23 21:46:58 EEST 2003
On Wed, Jul 23, 2003 at 08:05:32PM +0200, Frederic Crozat wrote:
> I don't think so.. But there used to be an article from ESR about that..
> That is why we (MdkSoft) are using $BROWSER environment to specify the
> browser to be used for Mdk tools.. Unfortunately this is distro
> specific.. I think Debian uses a script for that and RH another script..
>
The MIME spec is way better than $BROWSER though, since you can't
change an env. variable dynamically. (Can't change it for apps that
already started up.)
Havoc
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