Unable to set default Web browser

Desktop Environments Budgie
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Yesterday I installed a second browser (Chromium) along my choice browser (Firefox) for a job related task which repeats, so Chromium should stay for a little while.

After work I opened a link from my password manager and was shocked that Chromium would open, as I had not set it to be the default browser, and I had not realized that installing a new browser would change the default.

So I went to the Budgie Control Center under Default Applications, where I thought I could select my default browser. And while all other settings for default application are editable (Files, E-Mail, Calendar, Music, Video, Photos), the entry for Web at the top is disabled.

I thought that maybe it needed a reboot and waited until today, but even after a reboot the field stays disabled:

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There’s probably a way to do the same thing in a configuration file. Or maybe somebody knows why the field is disabled. I would prefer not to uninstall Chromium just yet.

2

Look into ~/.config/mimeapps.list.

There should be some lines like the followings:

x-scheme-handler/http=chromium.desktop
text/html=chromium.desktop
application/xhtml+xml=chromium.desktop
x-scheme-handler/https=chromium.desktop

Change chromium.desktop to firefox.desktop.
Check if it will effectively set Firefox to be used as default browser.

3

Thanks, that pointed me in the right direction. The reason seemed to have been this line:

[Removed Associations]
application/xhtml_xml=firefox.desktop;chromium.desktop;

So it seems that I have somehow removed the Firefox association from the options when I fumbled around with the Chromium problem. I removed the Removed association, and Firefox is now a valid option in the configuration list.

Thank you.

4

You are welcome!
Glad to hear you got it resolved!