From: Wolfgang Rosenauer <wr@rosenauer.org>
Subject: Hardcode app starter for default check

diff --git a/browser/components/shell/src/nsGNOMEShellService.cpp b/browser/components/shell/src/nsGNOMEShellService.cpp
--- a/browser/components/shell/src/nsGNOMEShellService.cpp
+++ b/browser/components/shell/src/nsGNOMEShellService.cpp
@@ -144,7 +144,11 @@
   rv = appPath->AppendNative(NS_LITERAL_CSTRING(MOZ_APP_NAME));
   NS_ENSURE_SUCCESS(rv, rv);
 
-  return appPath->GetNativePath(mAppPath);
+  /* This path to firefox is hardcoded for the default path setting */
+  mAppPath.Assign ("/usr/bin/firefox");
+
+  //return appPath->GetNativePath(mAppPath);
+  return NS_OK;
 }
 
 NS_IMPL_ISUPPORTS1(nsGNOMEShellService, nsIShellService)