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Just annotations of little "how to's", so I know I can find how to do something I've already done when I need to do it again, in case I don't remember anymore, which is not unlikely. Hopefully they can be useful to others, but I can't guarantee that it will work, or that it won't even make things worse.
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Adaptive "default" browser script (rudimentary, but seems to work)

Posted 06-28-2014 at 03:22 AM by the dsc (linux-related notes)
Updated 07-26-2017 at 05:22 PM by the dsc ("bugfix" - no need to echo the variable)
Sometimes you open an application that will in turn open some web page, and it will automatically open it with the default browser. The problem is that often you'd prefer that it had been opened in whatever other browser that may be already running, even if it's not the system's default. So I came up with this script in order to try to get this behavior:

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#!/bin/bash
# This "software" (so to speak) is totally UNLICENSED and barely documented. What you see is
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