Two default browsers?

[Gary Aitken]

On 1/20/21 1:48 PM, Graham Perrin wrote:
> On 20/01/2021 17:57, Gary Aitken wrote:

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

startx/.xinitrc using xfce4