Comment 5 for bug 538912

> The alternatives system is not a good way of managing the default
> browser anyway

Perhaps, but it's what apps that use sensible-browser (alpine, xpdf, end up using, which is why I really care. Perhaps another solution would be to make ubufox or something make sensible-browser unconditionally open Firefox...

(It is kind of telling that the first page of Google results for sensible-browser are mostly people trying to figure out how to make their Ubuntu sensible-browser Firefox.)

> and it's pretty difficult (or nearly impossible) to pick a priority
> that will please everyone and won't make some users upset.

Well, there's a little Firefox icon in the gnome-panel, and that seems to be sufficient, and I imagine people would replace that icon if for some reason it were a launcher for xlinks2 or Iceweasel or Epiphany instead.

I would claim that that means that Firefox is Ubuntu's default browser, and so that's what sensible-browser should launch. If people want to change their preferences on a case-by-case basis, they can set $BROWSER.

See also bug #204858 for people ultimately wanting sensible-browser to open Firefox (or Konqueror on Kubuntu). I'm perfectly cool with deciding that we don't want to do this with alternatives or xdg-open or whatever, but I think sensible-browser should be fixed on Ubuntu.

If you think that this should be a different bug, and we should wontfix the current one about xlinks, I'm happy to file a new bug.