266976 - No Default Browser option in preferences on Linux

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Settings UI, defect)

Description

[Keith Blackwell]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20041001 Firefox/0.10.1

There is no option to set default browser in Linux version, yet the help file
says there is (under Tools->Options, which doesn't even exist)..

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Search preferences
2. Look under all menus
3. Scream

Actual Results:  
I became more dismayed with Firefox

Expected Results:  
Should be an option somewhere to set Firefox as default browser.

Comment 1

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

Well, first question is what's your platform?

We do have this UI, but its only shown if we have code to implement it properly.
So if you're on, say, KDE, its not going to show up, because we have no hooks
for KDE.

same goes for older GNOME versions.

The OS pref panel should have this option on any reasonably recent distro.

Comment 2

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

sorry for bugspam, long-overdue mass reassign of ancient QA contact bugs,
filter on "beltznerLovesGoats" to get rid of this mass change