#1 2024-08-24 19:04:39

WolfeN

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Registered: 2021-04-10

Posts: 33

Set non-esr Firefox as default browser

I added Mozilla's APT Repository in order to install the non-esr Firefox. Now I have 2 Firefox entries under Internet ("Firefox" & "Firefox ESR"), but also I cannot select to have the non-esr Firefox as the BL default "web browser" (it doesn't show up in list of browsers in the "Set Default Browser"). How can I fix this?

On a side note, is there any reason to stick with ESR instead of the non-ESR version?

Thanks.

Bearded_Blunder

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From: Seat: seat0; vc7

Registered: 2015-09-29

Posts: 1,146

Re: Set non-esr Firefox as default browser

Sounds like you'll need to add it to Debian alternatives, process outlined here:
https://wiki.debian.org/DebianAlternatives

Main reason I can think of for sticking with Firefox ESR is it's pretty much guaranteed to work, you *may* run into glitches and/or new bugs if you track the very latest.  How much of a potential problem that is I couldn't say, & it's likely Mozilla would fix such things fairly quickly.

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