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Paddy Roddy
Asked: 2018-10-25 02:12:03 +0800 CST

VSCode overrides default HTML viewer

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I want my default application to open .html files to be Chrome but on Ubuntu 18.04 every time I open vscode it overrides my set default. Not sure how to enable this permanently, does anyone know how to stop this change?

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  1. Best Answer

    Someone already opened an issue on github.

    https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/60664

    Not a permanent soluation, but delete/mv the xdg-open handler /usr/share/applications/code-url-handler.desktop and/or .local/share/applications/code-url-handler.desktop will fix current issue until next installation if they do not fix it.

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