Nautilus in Browser mode by default?

[Gene Wilson]

On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 00:05:08 -0600, Jonathan Berry <berryja at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 22:32:28 -0500, Jim <lawrence.jim at gmail.com> wrote:
> [reordered]
> 
> 
> > On Wed, 08 Dec 2004 21:23:17 -0600, Eric Scott <scottclansman at cwazy.co.uk> wrote:
> > > Yo;  I just installed Fedora 2 a couple weeks ago (Former
> > > Mandrake/SuSE/Debian tinkerer... fairly new to Linux in general), and
> > > have been trying to give the default Windows95/Old Mac OS spread-out
> > > method of Nautilus's windows a chance... and am about to blow over the
> > > top.  I find myself running "nautilus --browser"more and more often...
> > >
> > > *How do I get Nautilus to run in browser mode by default, like it used
> > > to?* (The last version of RedHat I used was 8.0... and it was fine in
> > > this respect.)  Do people really like the spread-out method that much?
> > > Or did RedHat make an executive decision... isn't this a community
> > > project?  Bla.  Just in case you hadn't got it, the Explorer-98 style
> > > (Side pane, address bar, navigation buttons) was an ADVANCEMENT over the
> > > Explorer-95 style, IMHO (Yes yes, I'm assuming that Microsoft was the
> > > first to make file managers act like web browsers, but I could be wrong,
> > > after all, have they ever inovated before?).
> > >
> > > Thanx,
> > >     ES
> >
> > selct your start button (bottom left corner)
> > goto -->System Tools --> Configuration Editor
> >
> > select apps--> Nautilus-->Preferences
> >
> > look for the key named "always_use_browser"
> > select the box next to always_use_browser to enable it.
> > read the message in the dialog box below after you enable it
> > 
> > --
> > james lawrence
> 
> Ahh, thanks.  I was wondering this too.  By the way, Eric, FC3 with
> Gnome 2.8 defaults to the browser mode automatically.  It seems
> perhaps other people liked the browser mode better as well.  Now why
> this isn't configurable in the "Preferences" for Nautilus is beyond
> me.
> Jonathan

In FC3 you CAN change the behavior of Nautilus right from the
preferences menu.  Go to edit->preferences->behavior on the Nautilus
menu bar.  Check on "Always open in brower windows".  You don't need
to use the configuration manager for that anymore.