Re: How to change the default Internet browser on F28?

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On 06/02/18 09:03, R. G. Newbury wrote:
> On 2018-06-01 06:52 PM, users-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> Subject: Re: How to change the default Internet browser on F28?
>> On Thu, May 31, 2018 at 11:03 PM, Ed Greshko<ed.greshko@xxxxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
>>>> How can I change the default Internet browser on F28?
>>>
>>> Your question may, or may not, have a simple answer.  It all depends on what you
>>> mean
>>> by "default browser" and the desktop you're using as well as the applications
>>> calling
>>> the browser.
>>>
>>> Anyway, I use KDE as my DE and Chrome as my browser.  I also use T-Bird for my mail
>>> client where most of the links are that I want to open.
>>>
>>> So, the following works for me....
>>>
>>> xdg-settings set default-web-browser google-chrome.desktop
>>> xdg-settings set default-url-scheme-handler http google-chrome.desktop
>>> xdg-settings set default-url-scheme-handler https google-chrome.desktop
>>>
> I have the same problem on F27. And it is quite annoying.
>
> F27, KDE, Chrome, Thunderbird.
> Using xdg-settings does not work *for me*, nor do the various settings in the
> Thunderbird config, such as network.protocol-handler-app.http
>
>
>
Are you saying that, after making the xdg-settings changes, if you do

xdg-open http://fedoraproject.org

it still opens firefox and not chrome?

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