How do I tell my BOINC manager that I am using Mozilla and/or Firefox as web navigator? It assumes I am using lynx.

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I asked a similar question recently in the main message boards. My problem is that no browser is launched from the manager. Rom Walton responded and indicated that the browser is determined by the mime.types and/or mailcap files (in the /etc directory, or .mime.types or .mailcap in a user's home directory) via the wxwidget libraries.
Tweaking these files on my machine hasn't helped, but if you are at least getting lynx to run, you may be able to change things to get firefox, or the browser of choice to fire off.
Try doing a man on mailcap, mime.types, mailcap.order, and update-mime for some possible clues on how you may be able to specify a different browser. As a side note, I've received some info from other lists that hint that the window manger you use may also play a part in how or if the mime.type or mailcap file is used in relation to setting a default browser. In my case, KDE, is said not to live in perfect harmony with wxwidgets, though I haven't confirmed or denied that fact. Hope this sheds a bit of light.

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I asked a similar question recently in the main message boards. My problem is that no browser is launched from the manager. Rom Walton responded and indicated that the browser is determined by the mime.types and/or mailcap files (in the /etc directory, or .mime.types or .mailcap in a user's home directory) via the wxwidget libraries.
Tweaking these files on my machine hasn't helped, but if you are at least getting lynx to run, you may be able to change things to get firefox, or the browser of choice to fire off.
Try doing a man on mailcap, mime.types, mailcap.order, and update-mime for some possible clues on how you may be able to specify a different browser. As a side note, I've received some info from other lists that hint that the window manger you use may also play a part in how or if the mime.type or mailcap file is used in relation to setting a default browser. In my case, KDE, is said not to live in perfect harmony with wxwidgets, though I haven't confirmed or denied that fact. Hope this sheds a bit of light.

I am using KDE too on my SuSE Linux 9.1. Opera complains about it at startup, Firefox and Mozilla do not. Thanks anyway for your explanation. I just start Mozilla or Firefox and visit the SETI or Einstein sites.

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