SENSIBLE-BROWSER(1) General Commands Manual SENSIBLE-BROWSER(1)
NAME
sensible-browser - sensible web browsing
SYNOPSIS
sensible-browser url
DESCRIPTION
sensible-browser makes sensible decisions on which web browser to call.
Programs in Debian can use this script as their default web browser or
emulate their behavior.
BROWSER environment variable could be set, and will be used if set.
Any string acceptable as a command_string operand to the sh -c command
shall be valid (this is the same behavior of the EDITOR variable as
documented in environ(7)).
SEE ALSO
environ(7)
STANDARD
Documentation of behavior of sensible-utils under a debian system is
available under section 11.4 of debian-policy usually installed under
/usr/share/doc/debian-policy (you might need to install debian-policy)
Debian 12 Jan 2020 SENSIBLE-BROWSER(1)
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