I've also made the suggestion to LXQt to discontinue using `$BROWSER`
and instead using `xdg-settings` as I've shown how even though chromium
is unique in its robustness, there is still not a complete definition of
"default browser" (including dealing with file associations/mimetypes
and scheme
** Description changed:
STEPS TO REPRODUCE
1. Install firefox
2. Set `BROWSER=firefox`
3. Open firefox and make sure it is the default browser
4. Install chromium-browser
5. Open chromium-browser and set it as the default browser
6. Click on a link or use `xdg-open URL`
I will say, though, that there are many examples across various Linucies
(that's the plural, right? ☺) suggesting to use the BROWSER variable to change
the default browser. Case in point:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Environment_Variables#Default_programs
And I might add another point:
** Description changed:
STEPS TO REPRODUCE
- 1. Install firefox
- 2. Set `BROWSER=firefox`
- 3. Open firefox and make sure it is the default browser
- 4. Install chromium-browser
- 5. Open chromium-browser and set it as the default browser
- 6. Click on a link or use `xdg-open URL`
+ 1.
Not sure about opera, but IIRC firefox doesn't use xdg-settings to set
itself as the default browser.
chromium-browser relies on xdg-settings, which errors out when $BROWSER
is set, and that's apparently intentional. So the bug here seems to be
that $BROWSER is set in the first place. What
** Description changed:
- Every time I launch the browser it suggests to be set as the default but if I
click on that button nothing will change: I'll get the suggestion the next time
I open Chromium, even if I reboot.
- Changing the default browser on configuration panel didn't solve the issue
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