On 01/05/2017 12:43 AM, Len Philpot wrote: > ...despite not being visibly set as default? For HTMLfiles in a volume, > Chrome opens by default. Yet particularly from applications when opening > HTML help, for example, they all-too-often do so in Firefox. > > * I have Chrome set as the webbrowser in Preferred Applications. > * There are zero references to Firefox (nor Mozilla, for that matter) > to be found in the Mime Type Editor. > * 'exo-open --launch WebBrowser' launches Chrome > * 'update-alternatives' shows Chrome as the "auto mode" default, > although there's a manual mode available (not tried that yet) > * There are no in-app preferences for default browsers in the apps > > What am I missing?
<rant> Two things: 1. The arrogance of Thunderbird in making it virtually impossible to force links to open in Chrome instead of FF. I have no idea why they do this (except of course FF is "their" browser). Their config option simply does not work (gets ignored). 2. The equal stupidity of Chrome in refusing to open mailto: links by passing them to Thunderbird or your nominated mailer: instead it takes no action, and if you try to open a mailto: link in a new window, it opens a new Chrome window on the same page and does nothing. This is because it uses a deeply unwise little utility called xdg-open, which is fundamentally broken. [1] is easily fixed by uninstalling Firefox and never using it again. [2] has no solution AFAIK. Three years after highlighting this, it has not been fixed, and you still cannot click on a mailto: link and get a Thunderbird (or indeed any) composer window, because it's impossible to reconfigure xdg-open to call the right application. Yes Dan, "it's hard for a programmer to know how to look up the user's favorite browser", but only because no-one is prepared to take the first step and enforce global definition of $BROWSER, $MAILER, $EDITOR, $TERMINAL, $FILEMANAGER, and maybe a few others. I have no problem in devs using a more complex system to do this if they wish, like exo-open, but it need to be configured to work all the time, on all of the URL methods, and if it is intended to replace xdg-open, then it should do so and xdg-open should be wiped from the distros. Maybe one day someone will clean up this mess...it's unnecessary, and very embarrassing when you try to explain to new users how wonderful Linux is, and especially [X]Ubuntu, and then have it fall flat on its face when they click on a link. </rant> ///Peter -- xubuntu-users mailing list xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users
