Closed Bug 274112 Opened 20 years ago Closed 19 years ago

Make Default Browser button missing from the Linux version

Categories

(Firefox :: Settings UI, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Settings UI
Platform:
x86
Linux
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
major

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED EXPIRED

People

(Reporter: andrew.ramage, Assigned: bugzilla)

Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

When I used Win 2K, there was a button labelled Check Default in the
Tools|Options|General panel.  Having switched to Linux, I tried to make it my
default browser.  The panel was accessed through the old (Netscape) way of
organizing menus - Edit|Preferences|Gemeral.  But the button for making Firefox
the default browser was missing from the Linux version of Firefox 1.0

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. From the Edit menu select Preferences
2. Click on the General tab
3. Compare with the window accessed from the Windows version via Tools|Options
what distro/version of Linux do you have?

(see also bug 266976)
Andrew replied by email to say that he's on SuSE 9.0.  In that case, can't
imagine why this wouldn't work, but I'm not on Linux so someone else will have
to figure that out...

(Andrew - in future please add comments to the bug using the web form instead,
so everything gets on record. thanks.)
I installed a 1 CD version of SuSE 9.0 that came on the cover CD of a Linux
magazine.
dupe of bug 273439 ?
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Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 19 years ago
Resolution: --- → EXPIRED
sorry for bugspam, long-overdue mass reassign of ancient QA contact bugs,
filter on "beltznerLovesGoats" to get rid of this mass change
QA Contact: mconnor → preferences
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