apport-bug insists on using seamonkey

[Erik Edelmann]

Binary package hint: apport

For some insane reason, apport-bug insists on using seamonkey instead of my prefered webbrowser Firefox. (Yes, I tried setting Firefox as my prefered web browser using Xfce's settings editor, but that didn't help. And maybe I'm blind, but I couldn't find any 'settings' button/menu/etc. in apport-bug itself either).

It's not just that I prefer Firefox in general, but also that I had my launchpad password stored in Firefox, but not in seamonkey. So I had to report the password as forgotten, and create a new one. And to make matters worse, launchpad seems to be really anal about password security, which I find somewhat silly. This is, after all, just a bugtracking system.

(BTW, I really don't understand the point with making people use this apport thingie at all. Do you really WANT people to be completely pissed off when they report bugs? Wouldn't it be a lot better if bug reporters were in a friendly, polite mood indstead? Instead of spending 15 minuted on reporting an exiting readline/bash bug, I've spent about 1 h on calming down enough to report this bug without excessive use of the F-word)

(For the record, I'm running Xubuntu 10.10 on amd64, and the version of apport I have installed is 1.14.1-0ubuntu8.1. (Why do you ask me to tell you this? Isn't the supposed point with apport to gather this kind of information automatically?))

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: apport 1.14.1-0ubuntu8.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-25.44-generic 2.6.35.10
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-25-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sat Feb 12 02:53:36 2011
InstallationMedia: Xubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" - Release amd64 (20101008.1)
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: apport

[Erik Edelmann (erik-edelmann)]

Ok, found out how to make firefox default browser