On Sun, Sep 11, 2011 at 08:26:53PM +0200, clemens fischer wrote: > I have used "gconf-editor", added the directory chain Very few programs still use the GConf settings. Most follow the XDG configuration at ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list: [Default Applications] x-scheme-handler/http=firefox.desktop x-scheme-handler/https=firefox.desktop text/html=firefox.desktop The "x-scheme-handler/*" entries are for "http:" and "https:" URLs respectively, and "text/html" is for opening local HTML files. -- Mantas M.