Re: Setting the default web browser

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On 07/18/13 20:21, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> Evo 3.8.3, Fedora 19, KDE 4.10
>
> I'm embarrassed to be asking this, but how do I set the default browser
> for embedded URLs to Chrome if I don't have the Gnome Desktop installed?
>
> I know this is a FAQ, and I've even answered it myself in the past, but
> the rules seem to have changed. There is no longer a
> gnome-control-center app in the Fedora repositories, and the xdg* stuff
> is correctly set to google-chrome, as is
> $HOME/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list
>
> There seem to be far too many competing ways to set up default
> applications.
>
> poc
>

Always fun....

Try installing gconf-editor and then going to desktop/gnome/applications/browser

The exec should be set to /opt/google/chrome/google-chrome



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