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bobdobbs
Asked: 2017-03-27 20:26:35 +0800 CST

I want to change the browser used for opening links

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I use Chrome for most everything.

Sometimes in external applications I click links to web resources. The operating system responds by firing up firefox, which then opens a tab for displaying the link.

I'd prefer that the link opens in Chrome.

I've set my default browser to Chrome. This doesn't change the behaviour of the operating systems behaviour.

google-chrome

1 Answers

  1. See this answer by Severo Raz to this question:

    How to set Google Chrome as the default browser?

    You should have in ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list file the following lines:

    text/html=google-chrome.desktop
x-scheme-handler/http=google-chrome.desktop
x-scheme-handler/https=google-chrome.desktop
x-scheme-handler/about=google-chrome.desktop
x-scheme-handler/unknown=google-chrome.desktop

    Make sure these lines are under either the [Default Applications] or [Added Associations] section.

    And of course, you need google-chrome installed such that google-chrome.desktop is either located at /usr/share/applications/, /usr/local/share/applications/ or ~/.local/share/applications/.

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