[protege-discussion] Changing Protege to use Mozilla/Firefox instead of Netscape on Linux/Unix?

[Daniel Holbert]

Would it be possible to make a one-line change to the Protege source, 
to switch the default browser command for unix/linux from "netscape" 
to "mozilla"?  My impression is that very few people have Netscape 
these days, whereas every modern Unix / Linux systems has either 
Mozilla or Firefox preinstalled.

This just requires a small change at line 498 of 
edu.stanford.smi.protege.util.BrowserLauncher.java:
from
                 browser = "netscape";
to
                 browser = "mozilla";

For any users that have Firefox but not the classic Mozilla browser, 
I'm pretty sure the command "mozilla" should still work -- it just 
launches firefox, using a symbolic link. (it does on my Ubuntu Linux 
system, at least)

(I know that it's possible to hard-code my favorite browser into my 
protege.properties file -- it just seems like the default should be 
the browser that the most users have installed.)

Thanks!
~Daniel