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AboElnouR
Asked: 2018-05-19 06:43:25 +0800 CST

How to change skype default browser

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I use Ubuntu 18.04 and I have the following problem.

When I try to open links via Skype it opens Mozilla firefox also I have set google chrome as my default browser.

I tried to find something in skype settings but I found nothing related to the application default browser

skype default-browser 18.04

4 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Installing packages from the Ubuntu software center using snap have some issues.

    "snap", a new cross-OS package manager. Snap will be much better than APT one day, but right now it's in the beginning stages and experiencing growing pains.

    I removed skype from the software center and I downloaded the .deb file from Official Skype website.

    Then I installed it using dpkg which solved the problem.

    Note: this answer inspired me.

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  2. For me, the following command immediately fixed the issue:

    ln -s ~/.config/mimeapps.list ~/snap/skype/common/.config/mimeapps.list
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  3. To make it work with snap do the following:

    1. Quit skype
    2. ln -s ~/.config/mimeapps.list ~/snap/skype/common/.config/mimeapps.list
    3. rm -rf ~/snap/skype/common/.config/google-chrome
    4. sudo ln -s ~/.config/google-chrome ~/snap/skype/common/.config/
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  4. I resolved the problem following below steps.

    1. Uninstall Firefox and open any link in Skype (agree with the alert)
    2. Delete (rename) ~ /snap/skype/common/.config/google-chrome
    3. sudo ln -s /home/user/.config/google-chrome /home/user/snap/skype/common/.config/
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