When trying to change default web browser on linux distros, it can be a mess…<\/p>\n
Too many different options and nobody knows the right one. And for a reason: there are several, depending on which app you are talking about.<\/p>\n
Here is what you need to do: <\/p>\n
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The obvious one is:<\/p>\n
But don’t forget this one !<\/p>\n Now this should work… but we often miss this poorly documented one:<\/p>\n When I say poorly documented, I mean you read the manual and you do not find the location of the configuration file involved (with strace<\/em> you find out that it is $HOME\/mimeapps.list<\/em>).<\/p>\n Moreover, here is what you read:<\/p>\n \nCheck whether the default web browser is firefox.desktop, which can be false even if \u00ab\u00a0get default-web-browser\u00a0\u00bb says that is the current value (if only some of the underlying settings actually reflect that value)\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n That’s it: one single distro, three (complicated, non self explained) options, poor documentation. This is why systemd folks won that battle, there IS a need for one standard, even if it’s bad, it will get better over time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When trying to change default web browser on linux distros, it can be a mess… Too many different options and nobody knows the right one. And for a reason: there are several, depending on which app you are talking about. Here is what you need to do:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[59,9,33],"class_list":["post-296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-system-administration","tag-linux","tag-shell","tag-ubuntu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.luria.ch\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.luria.ch\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.luria.ch\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.luria.ch\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.luria.ch\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.luria.ch\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":307,"href":"https:\/\/www.luria.ch\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions\/307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.luria.ch\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.luria.ch\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.luria.ch\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}~$ sudo update-alternatives --config x-www-browser
\nThere are 3 choices for the alternative x-www-browser (providing \/usr\/bin\/x-www-browser).
\n Selection Path Priority Status
\n------------------------------------------------------------
\n 0 \/usr\/bin\/vivaldi-stable 200 auto mode
\n 1 \/usr\/bin\/chromium-browser 40 manual mode
\n* 2 \/usr\/bin\/firefox 40 manual mode
\n 3 \/usr\/bin\/vivaldi-stable 200 manual mode
\nPress There are 3 choices for the alternative gnome-www-browser (providing \/usr\/bin\/gnome-www-browser).
\n Selection Path Priority Status
\n------------------------------------------------------------
\n 0 \/usr\/bin\/vivaldi-stable 200 auto mode
\n 1 \/usr\/bin\/chromium-browser 40 manual mode
\n* 2 \/usr\/bin\/firefox 40 manual mode
\n 3 \/usr\/bin\/vivaldi-stable 200 manual mode
\nPress ~$ xdg-settings get default-web-browser
\nchromium.desktop
\n~$ xdg-settings set default-web-browser firefox.desktop<\/code><\/p>\n