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  Firefox insists to be default !? Miroslav Skoric <skoric@uns.ac.rs> - 2022-01-12 22:10 +0100
    Re: Firefox insists to be default !? Frank <debianlist@videotron.ca> - 2022-01-13 00:30 +0100
      Debian vs Firefox (was: Re: Firefox insists to be default !?) Emanuel Berg <moasenwood@zoho.eu> - 2022-01-13 01:00 +0100
        Re: Debian vs Firefox Richmond <richmond@criptext.com> - 2022-01-13 23:10 +0100
          Re: Debian vs Firefox Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2022-01-14 00:50 +0100
            Re: Debian vs Firefox Emanuel Berg <moasenwood@zoho.eu> - 2022-01-17 00:50 +0100
    Re: Firefox insists to be default !? Bret Busby <bret@busby.net> - 2022-01-13 07:00 +0100

#243935 — Firefox insists to be default !?

Hi all,

After the recent upgrade of Firefox (and Thunderbird) in oldoldstable 
(Mate desktop), Firefox always asks me to be default browser, even 
though I have set it as default in Mate's default applications, and 
respond to that asking by click on 'dont ask me again'.

Furthermore, Thunderbird is also set as a default email client. However, 
if I click on a weblink in Thunderbird mail, another Thunderbird session 
opens (instead opening Firefox). And when I close both software, and 
return to Mate control panel to check again for default applications ... 
voila ... Thunderbird seems as magically selected for both mail client 
and web browser there!

How to prevent that misbehaviour? All worked well with previous versions 
of Firefox and Thunderbird. What went wrong with new versions?

Misko

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#243938

Me too. Firefox 95.0.2 in Mate fully updated. I have had this problem 
before but it always sorted itself out later.



On 2022-01-12 14:52, Miroslav Skoric wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> After the recent upgrade of Firefox (and Thunderbird) in oldoldstable 
> (Mate desktop), Firefox always asks me to be default browser, even 
> though I have set it as default in Mate's default applications, and 
> respond to that asking by click on 'dont ask me again'.
>
> Furthermore, Thunderbird is also set as a default email client. 
> However, if I click on a weblink in Thunderbird mail, another 
> Thunderbird session opens (instead opening Firefox). And when I close 
> both software, and return to Mate control panel to check again for 
> default applications ... voila ... Thunderbird seems as magically 
> selected for both mail client and web browser there!
>
> How to prevent that misbehaviour? All worked well with previous 
> versions of Firefox and Thunderbird. What went wrong with new versions?
>
> Misko
>

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#243939 — Debian vs Firefox (was: Re: Firefox insists to be default !?)

Frank wrote:

> Me too. Firefox 95.0.2 in Mate fully updated. I have had this
> problem before but it always sorted itself out later.

Is the feud between Debian and Firefox sorted out?

I have a command, ice, to run the browser but it said there is
no iceweasel. I looked and there was a firefox. So now "ice"
runs fire :D LOL

But that was obviously the original joke ... never thought of
until now!

-- 
underground experts united
https://dataswamp.org/~incal

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#243972 — Re: Debian vs Firefox

Emanuel Berg <moasenwood@zoho.eu> writes:

> Frank wrote:
>
>> Me too. Firefox 95.0.2 in Mate fully updated. I have had this
>> problem before but it always sorted itself out later.
>
> Is the feud between Debian and Firefox sorted out?
>
> I have a command, ice, to run the browser but it said there is
> no iceweasel. I looked and there was a firefox. So now "ice"
> runs fire :D LOL
>
> But that was obviously the original joke ... never thought of
> until now!

I believe the feud was sorted out. I recently went out of my way to try
to get icecat, and found it eventually in a linux distribution called
Parabola, which also contains Iceweasel (and Icedove I think).

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#243974 — Re: Debian vs Firefox

On Thu, Jan 13, 2022 at 09:45:21PM +0000, Richmond wrote:
> Emanuel Berg <moasenwood@zoho.eu> writes:
> > Is the feud between Debian and Firefox sorted out?
> 
> I believe the feud was sorted out. I recently went out of my way to try
> to get icecat, and found it eventually in a linux distribution called
> Parabola, which also contains Iceweasel (and Icedove I think).

Yes, it was sorted out in 2016.

See <https://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3600> for a page with
a few sentences on this topic, and some more links to follow.

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#244095 — Re: Debian vs Firefox

Greg Wooledge wrote:

>>> Is the feud between Debian and Firefox sorted out?
>> 
>> I believe the feud was sorted out. I recently went out of
>> my way to try to get icecat, and found it eventually in
>> a linux distribution called Parabola, which also contains
>> Iceweasel (and Icedove I think).
>
> Yes, it was sorted out in 2016.
>
> See <https://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3600> for
> a page with a few sentences on this topic, and some more
> links to follow.

Thanks!

Good news from 2016 :)

-- 
underground experts united
https://dataswamp.org/~incal

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#243948

On 13/1/22 3:52 am, Miroslav Skoric wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> After the recent upgrade of Firefox (and Thunderbird) in oldoldstable 
> (Mate desktop), Firefox always asks me to be default browser, even 
> though I have set it as default in Mate's default applications, and 
> respond to that asking by click on 'dont ask me again'.
> 
> Furthermore, Thunderbird is also set as a default email client. However, 
> if I click on a weblink in Thunderbird mail, another Thunderbird session 
> opens (instead opening Firefox). And when I close both software, and 
> return to Mate control panel to check again for default applications ... 
> voila ... Thunderbird seems as magically selected for both mail client 
> and web browser there!
> 
> How to prevent that misbehaviour? All worked well with previous versions 
> of Firefox and Thunderbird. What went wrong with new versions?
> 
> Misko
> 

Perhaps you might be interested in subscribing to, and, posting to, the 
firefox mailing list, and/or the mozilla mailing list, at
https://groups.io/g/firefox-support
and
https://groups.io/g/mozilla
respectively.

Out of interest, with the firefox issue, I have had the same problem on 
my cellphone firefox installation, so, it appears to be a problem not 
limited to Debian installations of firefox.

-- 
Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
(UTC+0800)
..............

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