Two default browsers?

Graham Perrin grahamperrin at gmail.com
Wed Jan 20 20:48:23 UTC 2021


On 20/01/2021 17:57, Gary Aitken wrote:

> I'm a bit embarrassed to even have to ask this...
>
> I have two browsers installed, firefox and chrome.
> They both claim to be the default browser, and
> neither will allow me to change it.
>
> Can anyone explain to me how this is actually set, reset?
> Is it up to the individual browsers to honor their own settings?
> There is a
>   browser.defaultbrowser.notificationbar
> item in firefox's settings, but nothing about the default setting itself,
> and no way to turn it off/on.
>
> For chrome, I see no way to make chrome *NOT* the default browser.
> ~/.config/chromium/Default/Preferences is not a text file, and not easily
> editable.
>
> 11.4-RELEASE-p3
>
> Thanks for any clues,
>
> Gary


This question might ultimately be irrelevant, but what's your desktop 
environment?




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