[GRLUG] Firefox on an external drive

[Michael Mol]

On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 2:30 PM, Bob Kline <bob.kline at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 1:24 PM, Michael Mol <mikemol at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 1:10 PM, Ben DeMott <ben.demott at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Doesn't Ubuntu mount your external media to /media automatically?
>> > Otherwise use the df command to see what drives are present, and then
>> > use
>> > the mount command to mount the drive if it isn't already.
>> > (mount with no arguments shows what is currently mounted)
>> >
>> > If it's not in /media (it should be in /mnt)
>>
>> It depends on a couple things.  First, is Bob using fstab manually?
>> Is he using Ubuntu's GNOME automounter?  Is he using a version prior
>> to 9.04?
>>
>> 9.04 rearranged things such that GNOME's VFS subsystem is now
>> accessible to the rest of the Linux system.  I'm guessing they linked
>> it in via FUSE or some such.
>>
>> An experiment: Create a .html file on your external disk, and
>> double-click on it in Nautilus.  What does Firefox then say the path
>> is?
>>
>
> I tried Konqueror, and it finds the external
> external drive just fine,  shows it to be at /disk2/,
> and lists the contents.
>
> Entering that in to Firefox brings up nothing,
> so it does indeed appear to be a Firefox issue.
> For now I can just use Konqueror if need be,
> but it would still be of interest to know what
> Firefox needs to make it happy.
>
>     -- Bob

If you create a .html file on the external disk, set FF as your
default browser, and tell KDE to open the file with your default
browser, what happens?

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:wq