Using Chromium instead of Chrome?

[Anthony]

Hello Everyone,

I have both Chrome and Chromium installed on my machine. I have Chromium
set up as the default browser which usually has worked as expected.
However, when I click a link in Thunderbird, it opens up in regular
Chrome instead of Chromium. Any idea how I can change this behavior?

I've already looked at the "Preferred Applications" section of the
Settings Manager and it says Chromium is set as the default browser. Do
I need to change something else?

Using Fedora 18 with XFCE.

Thanks,
Anthony

[Reindl Harald]

Am 04.05.2013 23:39, schrieb Anthony:
> Hello Everyone,
>
> I have both Chrome and Chromium installed on my machine. I have Chromium
> set up as the default browser which usually has worked as expected.
> However, when I click a link in Thunderbird, it opens up in regular
> Chrome instead of Chromium. Any idea how I can change this behavior?
>
> I've already looked at the "Preferred Applications" section of the
> Settings Manager and it says Chromium is set as the default browser. Do
> I need to change something else?
>
> Using Fedora 18 with XFCE

http://fedora.12.x6.nabble.com/Thunderbird-does-not-respect-the-default-brow...

[Anthony]

On 05/04/2013 04:45 PM, Reindl Harald wrote:
> Am 04.05.2013 23:39, schrieb Anthony:
> > Hello Everyone,
> >
> > I have both Chrome and Chromium installed on my machine. I have Chromium
> > set up as the default browser which usually has worked as expected.
> > However, when I click a link in Thunderbird, it opens up in regular
> > Chrome instead of Chromium. Any idea how I can change this behavior?
> >
> > I've already looked at the "Preferred Applications" section of the
> > Settings Manager and it says Chromium is set as the default browser. Do
> > I need to change something else?
> >
> > Using Fedora 18 with XFCE
>
> http://fedora.12.x6.nabble.com/Thunderbird-does-not-respect-the-default-brow...

Thank you! That worked!

[Suvayu Ali]

On Sat, May 04, 2013 at 04:39:50PM -0500, Anthony wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
>
> I have both Chrome and Chromium installed on my machine. I have Chromium
> set up as the default browser which usually has worked as expected.
> However, when I click a link in Thunderbird, it opens up in regular
> Chrome instead of Chromium. Any idea how I can change this behavior?
>
> I've already looked at the "Preferred Applications" section of the
> Settings Manager and it says Chromium is set as the default browser. Do
> I need to change something else?
>
> Using Fedora 18 with XFCE.

What does the following say?

$ xdg-mime query default text/html

It should give you the desktop file for Chrome.  Change it to the
desktop file for Chromium with something like the following.

$ xdg-mime default <chromium_desktop_file> text/html

Hope this helps,

[Anthony]

On 05/05/2013 01:54 AM, Suvayu Ali wrote:
> On Sat, May 04, 2013 at 04:39:50PM -0500, Anthony wrote:
> > Hello Everyone,
> >
> > I have both Chrome and Chromium installed on my machine. I have Chromium
> > set up as the default browser which usually has worked as expected.
> > However, when I click a link in Thunderbird, it opens up in regular
> > Chrome instead of Chromium. Any idea how I can change this behavior?
> >
> > I've already looked at the "Preferred Applications" section of the
> > Settings Manager and it says Chromium is set as the default browser. Do
> > I need to change something else?
> >
> > Using Fedora 18 with XFCE.
>
> What does the following say?
>
> $ xdg-mime query default text/html
>
> It should give you the desktop file for Chrome.  Change it to the
> desktop file for Chromium with something like the following.
>
> $ xdg-mime default <chromium_desktop_file> text/html

Thank you Suvayu! While I'd already found another way to change the
default association, I'm filing this little trick away for future use.
Thank you!

Anthony

[Beartooth]

On Sun, 05 May 2013 08:54:54 +0200, Suvayu Ali wrote:
> What does the following say?
>
> $ xdg-mime query default text/html
>
> It should give you the desktop file for Chrome.  Change it to the
> desktop file for Chromium with something like the following.
>
> $ xdg-mime default <chromium_desktop_file> text/html

OK, I have a doubtless Very Dumb Question (VDQ) to the general 
case : if I want to change it to, say, Dillo (or Opera, or Midori, 
or ...), where do I look for this <generic-desktop-file> text/html, and 
how do I recognize it when I find it? I don't see any candidates where I 
can think of to look, but maybe I wouldn't.

[Suvayu Ali]

On Sun, May 05, 2013 at 09:32:08PM +0000, Beartooth wrote:
> On Sun, 05 May 2013 08:54:54 +0200, Suvayu Ali wrote:
> > What does the following say?
> >
> > $ xdg-mime query default text/html
> >
> > It should give you the desktop file for Chrome.  Change it to the
> > desktop file for Chromium with something like the following.
> >
> > $ xdg-mime default <chromium_desktop_file> text/html
>
> OK, I have a doubtless Very Dumb Question (VDQ) to the general 
> case : if I want to change it to, say, Dillo (or Opera, or Midori, 
> or ...), where do I look for this <generic-desktop-file> text/html, and 
> how do I recognize it when I find it? I don't see any candidates where I 
> can think of to look, but maybe I wouldn't.

$ rpm -ql google-chrome-beta midori firefox | grep desktop
  /opt/google/chrome/google-chrome.desktop
  /usr/share/applications/fedora-midori.desktop
  /usr/share/applications/midori-private.desktop
  /usr/share/applications/firefox.desktop

Does this help?

[Beartooth]

On Mon, 06 May 2013 00:03:58 +0200, Suvayu Ali wrote:
> On Sun, May 05, 2013 at 09:32:08PM +0000, Beartooth wrote:
> > On Sun, 05 May 2013 08:54:54 +0200, Suvayu Ali wrote:
> > > What does the following say?
> > >
> > > $ xdg-mime query default text/html
> > >
> > > It should give you the desktop file for Chrome.  Change it to the
> > > desktop file for Chromium with something like the following.
> > >
> > > $ xdg-mime default <chromium_desktop_file> text/html
> >
> > OK, I have a doubtless Very Dumb Question (VDQ) to the general
> > case : if I want to change it to, say, Dillo (or Opera, or Midori,
> > or ...), where do I look for this <generic-desktop-file> text/html, and
> > how do I recognize it when I find it? I don't see any candidates where
> > I can think of to look, but maybe I wouldn't.
>
> $ rpm -ql google-chrome-beta midori firefox | grep desktop
>   /opt/google/chrome/google-chrome.desktop
>   /usr/share/applications/fedora-midori.desktop
>   /usr/share/applications/midori-private.desktop
>   /usr/share/applications/firefox.desktop
>
> Does this help?

Hmmm.... Ver-r-ry interessttingg :

[btth@Hbsk3 ~]$ xdg-mime query default text/html
firefox.desktop
[btth@Hbsk3 ~]$ rpm -ql google-chrome-beta midori firefox | grep desktop
/usr/share/applications/fedora-midori.desktop
/usr/share/applications/midori-private.desktop
/usr/share/applications/firefox.desktop

I have neither chrome nor chromium installed, so I also tried :

[btth@Hbsk3 ~]$ rpm -ql google-chrome-beta arora dillo | grep desktop
/usr/share/applications/fedora-arora.desktop
/usr/share/applications/fedora-dillo.desktop

Then I substituted, but got a surprise :

[btth@Hbsk3 ~]$ xdg-mime default </usr/share/applications/fedora-
dillo.desktop> text/html
bash: text/html: No such file or directory
[btth@Hbsk3 ~]$

Almost all of that is c&p; so what did I do wrong?

[Suvayu Ali]

On Sun, May 05, 2013 at 10:14:29PM +0000, Beartooth wrote:
> On Mon, 06 May 2013 00:03:58 +0200, Suvayu Ali wrote:
> > On Sun, May 05, 2013 at 09:32:08PM +0000, Beartooth wrote:
> > > On Sun, 05 May 2013 08:54:54 +0200, Suvayu Ali wrote:
> > > > What does the following say?
> > > >
> > > > $ xdg-mime query default text/html
> > > >
> > > > It should give you the desktop file for Chrome.  Change it to the
> > > > desktop file for Chromium with something like the following.
> > > >
> > > > $ xdg-mime default <chromium_desktop_file> text/html
> > >
> > > OK, I have a doubtless Very Dumb Question (VDQ) to the general
> > > case : if I want to change it to, say, Dillo (or Opera, or Midori,
> > > or ...), where do I look for this <generic-desktop-file> text/html, and
> > > how do I recognize it when I find it? I don't see any candidates where
> > > I can think of to look, but maybe I wouldn't.
> >
> > $ rpm -ql google-chrome-beta midori firefox | grep desktop
> >   /opt/google/chrome/google-chrome.desktop
> >   /usr/share/applications/fedora-midori.desktop
> >   /usr/share/applications/midori-private.desktop
> >   /usr/share/applications/firefox.desktop
> >
> > Does this help?
>
> Hmmm.... Ver-r-ry interessttingg :
>
> [btth@Hbsk3 ~]$ xdg-mime query default text/html
> firefox.desktop
> [btth@Hbsk3 ~]$ rpm -ql google-chrome-beta midori firefox | grep desktop
> /usr/share/applications/fedora-midori.desktop
> /usr/share/applications/midori-private.desktop
> /usr/share/applications/firefox.desktop
>
> I have neither chrome nor chromium installed, so I also tried :
>
> [btth@Hbsk3 ~]$ rpm -ql google-chrome-beta arora dillo | grep desktop
> /usr/share/applications/fedora-arora.desktop
> /usr/share/applications/fedora-dillo.desktop
>
> Then I substituted, but got a surprise :
>
> [btth@Hbsk3 ~]$ xdg-mime default </usr/share/applications/fedora-
> dillo.desktop> text/html

When I said <desktop_file>, it was a place holder for the name of the
desktop file.  The above command should have been:

$ xdg-mime default fedora-dillo.desktop text/html

Hope this helps,