[Alpine-info] opening urls with firefox

[Mike Miller]

On Tue, 13 Apr 2010, Stan Peale wrote:


> After installing a new version of firefox (version 3.6.3), I can no 

> longer open urls from alpine.  The screen blinks and "viewer application 

> complete" appears, but no firefox window is opened.  How do I fix alpine 

> to be compatible with the new version of firefox?



Are you using a Linux system, Mac OS X or Windows?

I'm using Ubuntu and this is how I start alpine:

alpine -z -feature-list=no-use-subshell-for-suspend -color-style=force-ansi-8color -url-viewers="/usr/bin/firefox %s &> /dev/null"

Of course I'm mostly recommending the last part of this line:

-url-viewers="/usr/bin/firefox %s &> /dev/null"

It seems to automatically open the file in a new tab.  It might be that 
your problem is with a symlink somewhere no longer pointing to the right 
binary.  Or maybe with a script like this one:

/usr/bin/sensible-browser

Or maybe you have $BROWSER set in a way that no longer works.

Mike