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wishi
Asked: 2011-01-04 06:20:24 +0800 CST

How do you globally set the default browser using KDE4?

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I'm using awesome-wm on Kubuntu 10.10. I like some of the KDE tools... like choqok. Thing is, that within awesome wm it seems to be impossible to set a default browser, because KDE4 settings overwrite the generally desired settings:

To illustrate the problem:

% xdg-mime query default text/html  
chromium-browser.desktop

And from ~/.kde/share/config/kdeglobals

[General]
BrowserApplication=firefox.desktop

Which does in no way make sense to me. If I set Firefox as default xdg-mime should not have Chrome. In fact I want Firefox.

So how do I globally once and for all, across all frameworks, define Firefox as default?

Best, Marius

p.s.: I should probably mention, that clicking in Choqok starts Konqueror...

configuration default browser

4 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    I go to the start menu, then:

    System Settings->Default Applications->Web Browser

    and then I tell it to open http/https in:
    google-chrome

    Now links in choqok (or any other kde application) are opened in chrome, also, if I do alt+f2 and type "man:file" for instance, the man page opens in chrome.

    I also modified the default email client so that emails are launched using gmail using the following command:

    google-chrome "https://mail.google.com/mail/?view=cm&fs=1&tf=1&to="%t

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  2. I have here KDE 4.6 (Beta of course) but am sure this worked in 4.5.x because i was opening everything with Firefox.

    Right click on a html file, choose properties and on the window that appears click on the small button next to the format of the file (html in this example). The button is small and to the right of the format. There you can choose which one will be the default one. The default one should be on top, the first one in the list will be the default for all html files.

    I did this for avi, mpg, mp3, png, jpg, htm, php, js, css files.

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  3. This worked for me (Kubuntu 16.04): go to : System Settings->Default Applications->Web Browser and put chromium-browser enter image description here

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  4. In my case I had to do 2 thing:

    1. Change the web browser default applications in the system settings:

    System Settings->Default Applications->Web Browser

    1. Add default HTTP and HTTPS handler in mimeapps.list:

    Using whatever editor you prefer, you might need sudo for that, add the x-scheme-handler/http and x-scheme-handler/https:

    vim ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list

    You should end up with something like this:

    [Default Applications]
...
...
...
x-scheme-handler/http=google-chrome.desktop
x-scheme-handler/https=google-chrome.desktop
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