> > I have firefox set as my default browser in
> ubuntu
> > hardy heron.  However when webhttrack starts up,
> it
> > starts up Opera, which I installed some time ago
> to
> > test how a site displays and never uninstalled.
> When
> > webhttrack starts up, it tells me that it's
> > launching the "regular" browser, which is not
> > correct:
> > 
> > jamkomo@Karnak:~/map$ /usr/bin/webhttrack(20527):
> > launching /usr/bin/x-www-browser
> > /usr/bin/webhttrack(20527): spawning regular
> > browser..
> > opera: X Shared memory extension is not
> available.
> > ZPixmap not supported
> > /usr/bin/webhttrack(20527): browser exited
> > /usr/bin/webhttrack: line 154: 20542 Killed       
>  
> >         ${BINPATH}/htsserver "${DISTPATH}/" path
> > "${HOME}/websites" lang "${LANGN}" $@
> > 
> 
> Additional Information: I read the message I
> previously posted, and noted that it said launching
> /usr/bin/x-www-browser.  On my Ubuntu machine that
> is a link not to the default browser but to opera: 
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 2008-03-27 23:56
> /usr/bin/x-www-browser ->
> /etc/alternatives/x-www-browser*
> and that is Opera.
> 
> I looked for a httrack.conf file in etc, but no conf
> file existed. 
> 
> Turning instead to webhttrack script in /usr/bin I
> see it finds x-www-browser via a SRCHBROWSEREXE
> variable. It appears one way to select firefox is to
> move firefox to the front of the list before
> x-www-browser.  
> 
> That's not very clean but works for my purposes.
> 
> Testing it:
> jamkomo@Karnak:~$ /usr/bin/webhttrack(32277):
> launching /usr/bin/firefox
> /usr/bin/webhttrack(32277): waiting for browser to
> terminate..
> 
> Works OK. It launches firefox connected to port
> 8081/tcp, and I can start a new project. 
> 
> However the default launcher doesn't start this way.
> It starts with this string: "webhttrack browse"
> which gives me an error. I can change it to just
> "webhttrack," but is that the correct approach?> 
> 

Doh! OK I get it. The reason I got the error (which was file not found) was
because I launched the "Browse Mirrorred Websites" instead of the "WebHTTrack
Website Copier" menu launcher.  

Everything works. My workaround above (moving firefox to the beginning of the
list of the search path) is a bit inelegant, but I didn't know what the effect
of updating the x-www-browser link would be (since it's supposed to be
"alternative" browser).

Anyway, it's ugly but it works. ;-)