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After last update, links to Web Browser don't work

Asked by Patrick Clough

After installing the last set of Ubuntu updates and restarting the computer as requested, the links to the web browser in both the drop-down menu and top shortcuts bar don't work. I have tried searching for the appropriate files to reestablish the link, but so far I haven't been able to find it. However, Firefox still shows up as installed on Add/Remove Programs, and I can still get online by finding a help file with a hyperlink to a website.

Any assistance with reestablishing the link would be most appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Patrick

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Log a bug. The browser is online so links should work

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druisan (druisan) said : 		#2

Go to System >> Preferences >> (applications by default or someting like that, I have in spanish and I don't know exactly) and select default web browser.

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Patrick Clough (yankee-sullivan) said : 		#3

Thanks, but Firefox is already my default browser. It works just fine when I can find a link to follow. The problem is that I can't find the actual file. The shortcuts I have to the browser don't work (I get the error I wrote above.) If I could find the file on the computer, I could make a new shortcut.

Does anybody have an idea where the executable files would be? I have tried to use the Search function to locate the files, but nothing comes up for "Firefox." I know it's on the computer because it shows up as installed on the Add/Remove Programs feature.

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Patrick Clough (yankee-sullivan) said : 		#4

To clarify: I need to know how to link the web browser to the icons in the Ubuntu "Internet" drop-down menu so it works again. I get the above error whenever I try to use the icon in that menu. I can find Firefox and other supposedly executable files in the file system, but I can't figure out how to use them to fix the icon. Now I'm getting notices that I need to shut down and restart Firefox to update it, but when I open Firefox using a weblink (which is the only way I can do it) it won't install the updates. HELP!

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Dmitry Shachnev (mitya57) said : 		#5

Please try to run the following in the Terminal:
xdg-open http://www.google.com/

And also
update-alternatives --display x-www-browser

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Patrick Clough (yankee-sullivan) said : 		#6

Dmitry,

The first command pulled up Google just fine. When I ran the second one it said the following:
x-www-browser - status is manual.
link currently points to /usr/bin/firefox-3.0
/usr/bin/firefox - priority 40
Current 'best' version is /usr/bin/firefox.

What should I do from here? (My apologies for not responding sooner; I have been unavailable for a very long time due to unforeseen circumstances.)

Thanks,
Patrick

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Best Dmitry Shachnev (mitya57) said : 		#7

Do you have firefox-3.0 installed? If so, remove it:
sudo apt-get remove firefox*
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install firefox

Or, if you don't want to break anything, just replace the command in
shortcut properties with 'xdg-open http://www.google.com/'

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Patrick Clough (yankee-sullivan) said : 		#8

It works! Thanks for the help, Dmitry!