--- browser/app/profile/firefox.js
+++ browser/app/profile/firefox.js
@@ -173,7 +173,7 @@
 
 // Whether or not the application should check at startup each time if it 
 // is the default browser.
-pref("browser.shell.checkDefaultBrowser", true);
+pref("browser.shell.checkDefaultBrowser", false);
 
 // 0 = blank, 1 = home (browser.startup.homepage), 2 = last visited page, 3 = resume previous browser session
 // The behavior of option 3 is detailed at: http://wiki.mozilla.org/Session_Restore
--- browser/components/shell/src/nsGNOMEShellService.cpp
+++ browser/components/shell/src/nsGNOMEShellService.cpp
@@ -133,7 +133,11 @@
   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_ISUPPORTS2(nsGNOMEShellService, nsIShellService, nsIShellService_MOZILLA_1_8_BRANCH)