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[kbun at xpresso.seaslug.org]

On Tue, 30 Jul 2013, Nils Kassube wrote:

> kbun at xpresso.seaslug.org wrote:
>> Chrome doesn't
>> seem to have that function for linux, just everyone else,
>> which is one of my beefs with it.
>>
>> That, and the fact that it _still_ keeps hy-jacking
>> my system. I've been told that you can in
>>
>> system settings --> file associations --> text for HTML
>>
>> you can make something point to something else in order
>> to cure that, but there's nothing obvious that shows
>> what or how to do that.
>
> I suppose you are at the wrong place to make the change. I just reread
> your other thread and I think chrome, firefox and your non-KDE email
> program don't care about the KDE settings. You should probably check the
> settings of the email program for the browser it would use. I suppose
> the default would be "/usr/bin/x-www-browser" which is a link pointing
> to "/etc/alternatives/x-www-browser" which is again a link which points
> to the browser which was installed last. If that is the case, you could
> change the setting with the command
>
> sudo update-alternatives --config x-www-browser
>
> in a terminal.

Thank you Sir!!!!!

As you surmised, alpine has quite a number of MIME options,
but apperently none for the browser itself in the rc/conf
files. I've previously checked both.

The update alternatives command is what worked. Never
having come across that one before, I can only note once
again, that it seems more and more impossible to keep up
with all the changes and additions that keep coming down
the pipe. It reminds me of the old Lily Tomlin line:

No matter how cynical I get,
I just can't seem to keep up.

:-)

Thanks again.

Bill