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Set linux default browser in Linux

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mimeapps.list.md

I set it in /usr/share/applications/defaults.list and it worked for me (opening links from the Slack app). Indeed, the list of available applications is /usr/share/applications/\*.desktop.

This can probably also be done per-user in ~/.config/mimeapps.list

These lines had to be edited in my case:

text/html=firefox.desktop;
text/xml=firefox.desktop;
application/xhtml_xml=firefox.desktop;
image/webp=firefox.desktop;
x-scheme-handler/http=firefox.desktop;
x-scheme-handler/https=firefox.desktop;
x-scheme-handler/ftp=firefox.desktop;

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chalist commented Sep 10, 2020

https://unix.stackexchange.com/posts/572176/edit