Thread: Browser Switchboard - use any browser as the default
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steven676 is offline steven676
2010-09-08 , 08:06
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#155
Originally Posted by jukey View Post
  • When microb is default wish to have running the browser non-visible in the background it all the time
  • If an other browser than microb is my default browser microb should not run as background process. In this case it's okay for me to wait a little bit longer after starting microb explicitly
That's the current behavior; good to know others agree that it's the most desirable.

Originally Posted by jukey View Post
Everything seems to work as expected.
Yes, that's the expected behavior. Thank you for doing this!

Originally Posted by jukey View Post
I was surprised because Opera was already my default browser. In step 1. I used apt-get purge to unistal browser-switchboard and expected that all config fles are deleted too.
My understanding is that purging a package is only supposed to delete configuration files created during installation of the package. The config file for Browser Switchboard doesn't ship with the package and isn't created during installation, so it shouldn't be touched by the purge. (See section 10.7 of the Debian Policy Manual for details.)

Perhaps a button in the UI for restoring the default config would be in order; for now, "rm ~/.config/browser-switchboard" from a shell is the way to go.
 

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