Two default browsers?

[RW]

On Wed, 20 Jan 2021 15:18:35 -0700
Gary Aitken wrote:

> 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.
> >> 

> ...
> > This question might ultimately be irrelevant, but what's your
> > desktop environment?  
> 
> startx/.xinitrc using xfce4

Have a look at xfce's "Preferred Applications" under settings. 

It probably doesn't matter whether chromium thinks it's the default,
if xdg-open is opening the browser.