On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 11:03 PM, Ed Greshko <ed.gres...@greshko.com> wrote: >> How can I change the default Internet browser on F28? > > > Your question may, or may not, have a simple answer. It all depends on what > you mean > by "default browser" and the desktop you're using as well as the applications > calling > the browser. > > Anyway, I use KDE as my DE and Chrome as my browser. I also use T-Bird for > my mail > client where most of the links are that I want to open. > > So, the following works for me.... > > xdg-settings set default-web-browser google-chrome.desktop > xdg-settings set default-url-scheme-handler http google-chrome.desktop > xdg-settings set default-url-scheme-handler https google-chrome.desktop > > You would replace the google-chrome.desktop with the appropriate desktop file > for > your preferred browser. The desktop file would be located in... > > /usr/share/applications/
Thanks, Ed. I did as you suggested, but no luck, unfortunately: I am using a program that opens on the default browser, and I would like to have Chrome as the default browser, but the mentioned program always opens on Firefox. By the way, I am using XFCE as desktop manager. Paul _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/UBRNUTNBNSHPEEGXRD3DQHNIWTR7TJJC/
