Default browser setting

Havoc Pennington hp at redhat.com
Fri Jul 25 05:02:55 EEST 2003


On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 06:29:01PM -0700, John Meacham wrote:
> um. sure you can, just set $BROWSER to equal a script which you can
> change dynamically.

To change the setting via GUI then, you'd have to know BROWSER was set
to the script for all your apps, which means you may as well hardcode
the script instead of taking it from an env variable.  The env
variable becomes just a useless point of failure.

Havoc



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