Default Google-Chrome

[Mickey]

Fedora 21/KDE

I have in KDE Settings the Google-Chrome as default Web Browser.

How do I setup that when I'm reading my Emails in Thunderbird and I 
click on a Web Link in a email and I want the link to open in Chrome, 
but it always opens in Firefox. How do I change that ?

[Ed Greshko]

On 05/28/15 05:55, Kevin Cummings wrote:
>  On 05/27/2015 05:45 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
> > xdg-settings get default-web-browser
>  For me it returns: "xdg-settings: unknown desktop environment"
>
>  B^)  I run MATE desktops.
>  
FWIW, that will also be the output if you run the command from an ssh session. 

I don't currently have an MATE system to check on.

[egreshko@meimei ~]$ xdg-settings get default-web-browser
google-chrome.desktop


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[Rick Stevens]

On 05/27/2015 10:03 PM, Dan Mossor wrote:
>  On 05/27/2015 05:09 PM, Rick Stevens wrote:
> > On 05/27/2015 11:22 AM, Mickey wrote:
> >> Fedora 21/KDE
> >>
> >> I have in KDE Settings the Google-Chrome as default Web Browser.
> >>
> >> How do I setup that when I'm reading my Emails in Thunderbird and I
> >> click on a Web Link in a email and I want the link to open in Chrome,
> >> but it always opens in Firefox. How do I change that ?
> >
> > Go to:
> >
> >      Edit Menu->Preferences->Advanced
> >
> > Click on the "General" tab. The lower right side will have a button:
> >
> >      Config Editor...
> >
> > Click on that button, and click the "I'll be careful, I promise"
> > button. Now you're in the config editor.
> >
> > In the search box, enter "network.protocol-handler.app.http". Two
> > things are now possible:
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > A) If nothing shows up, you need to add a couple of entries. Right-click
> > in the window and select "New->String". In the "New String
> Value"
> > window, type in
> >
> >      network.protocol-handler.app.http
> >
> > and hit ENTER or click "Ok". In the "Enter string value" window,
> put in
> > the FULL path to the chrome binary you want. In my case:
> >
> >      /opt/google/chrome/chrome
> >
> > Press ENTER again or click "Ok" and now you should have a new entry
> > that looks like:
> >
> >      network.protocol-handler.app.http   user-set   string
> > /opt/google/chrome/chrome
> >
> > Repeat that process, but add "network.protocol-handler.app.https" to
> > handle "https://" links in your emails and you should have two entries:
> >
> >      network.protocol-handler.app.http   user-set   string
> > /opt/google/chrome/chrome
> >      network.protocol-handler.app.https  user-set   string
> > /opt/google/chrome/chrome
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > B) There are entries, but they're pointing somewhere else. In this case,
> > just double-click on the entry and in the pop-up window, put in the path
> > to your Chrome binary and press ENTER or click "Ok".
> >
> > That oughta do it. Here's the link from Mozilla:
> >
> >
> > http://kb.mozillazine.org/Changing_the_web_browser_invoked_by_Thunderbird
> >
> > Keep in mind the navigation path they talk about:
> >
> >      Tools->Options->Advanced->General->Config editor
> >
> > is aimed at Windows users. The equivalent for Linux is:
> >
> >      Edit menu->Preferences->Advanced->General tab->"Config
> Editor..."
> > button
> >
> > that I talked about above. You will need to restart Thunderbird for
> > this to take effect.
> >
> > Good luck!
>  Thanks Rick!  Thunderbird has been driving me up a wall for quite some
>  time. On F20 and F21, it would open all links in FF when the system
>  default browser was Google Chrome. Now in F22, I've switched to FF as my
>  default browser, but T-bird opened all https links in emails with
>  Konquerer. This fixes it. 
Glad to be of service! There may be other ways to do this, but I know
this works.
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[Temlakos]

On 05/30/2015 10:40 AM, Ahmad Samir wrote:
>  On 30 May 2015 at 16:17, Temlakos <temlakos(a)gmail.com 
>  <mailto:[e-mail]>> wrote:
>
>      I tried all of the above. I have the user-set strings defined for
>      my particular instance of Google Chrome.
>
>      And it accomplishes precisely nothing.
>
>      I'm using Thunderbird version 31.7.0 on F22. And still the links
>      resolve by starting Firefox, not Chrome.
>
>      Where else do I need to reset something?
>
>
>  (Did you see my previous posts in this thread?).
>
>  --
>  Ahmad Samir
>
>  
That solved the problem. To be specific, editing the mimeappslist file 
solved the problem. Links now resolve in Chrome, as I desired.

Temlakos

[Ahmad Samir]

On 30 May 2015 at 16:17, Temlakos <temlakos(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

>  I tried all of the above. I have the user-set strings defined for my
>  particular instance of Google Chrome.
>
>  And it accomplishes precisely nothing.
>
>  I'm using Thunderbird version 31.7.0 on F22. And still the links resolve
>  by starting Firefox, not Chrome.
>
>  Where else do I need to reset something?
>
>  
(Did you see my previous posts in this thread?).

--
Ahmad Samir

[Tom Horsley]

On Sat, 30 May 2015 10:17:43 -0400
Temlakos wrote:

>  I'm using Thunderbird version 31.7.0 on F22. And still the links
> resolve 
>  by starting Firefox, not Chrome. 
It is entirely possible that buried somewhere in thunderbird itself
there is a setting for how to open links, so setting defaults
outside of thunderbird wouldn't have any effect if tb was
explicitly set to use firefox.

[Ed Greshko]

On 05/30/15 22:17, Temlakos wrote:
>  I tried all of the above. I have the user-set strings defined for my
> particular instance of Google Chrome.
>
>  And it accomplishes precisely nothing.
>
>  I'm using Thunderbird version 31.7.0 on F22. And still the links resolve by starting
> Firefox, not Chrome.
>
>  Where else do I need to reset something? 
Well, as a test you could erase Firefox just to see if that affects anything. 

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[Temlakos]

On 05/27/2015 06:09 PM, Rick Stevens wrote:
>  On 05/27/2015 11:22 AM, Mickey wrote:
> > Fedora 21/KDE
> >
> > I have in KDE Settings the Google-Chrome as default Web Browser.
> >
> > How do I setup that when I'm reading my Emails in Thunderbird and I
> > click on a Web Link in a email and I want the link to open in Chrome,
> > but it always opens in Firefox. How do I change that ?
>
>  Go to:
>
>      Edit Menu->Preferences->Advanced
>
>  Click on the "General" tab. The lower right side will have a button:
>
>      Config Editor...
>
>  Click on that button, and click the "I'll be careful, I promise"
>  button. Now you're in the config editor.
>
>  In the search box, enter "network.protocol-handler.app.http". Two
>  things are now possible:
>  ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>  A) If nothing shows up, you need to add a couple of entries. Right-click
>  in the window and select "New->String". In the "New String Value"
>  window, type in
>
>      network.protocol-handler.app.http
>
>  and hit ENTER or click "Ok". In the "Enter string value" window, put
> in
>  the FULL path to the chrome binary you want. In my case:
>
>      /opt/google/chrome/chrome
>
>  Press ENTER again or click "Ok" and now you should have a new entry
>  that looks like:
>
>      network.protocol-handler.app.http   user-set   string 
>  /opt/google/chrome/chrome
>
>  Repeat that process, but add "network.protocol-handler.app.https" to
>  handle "https://" links in your emails and you should have two entries:
>
>      network.protocol-handler.app.http   user-set   string 
>  /opt/google/chrome/chrome
>      network.protocol-handler.app.https  user-set   string 
>  /opt/google/chrome/chrome
>
>  ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>  B) There are entries, but they're pointing somewhere else. In this case,
>  just double-click on the entry and in the pop-up window, put in the path
>  to your Chrome binary and press ENTER or click "Ok".
>
>  That oughta do it. Here's the link from Mozilla:
>
>      http://kb.mozillazine.org/Changing_the_web_browser_invoked_by_Thunderbird 
>
>
>  Keep in mind the navigation path they talk about:
>
>      Tools->Options->Advanced->General->Config editor
>
>  is aimed at Windows users. The equivalent for Linux is:
>
>      Edit menu->Preferences->Advanced->General tab->"Config
> Editor..." 
>  button
>
>  that I talked about above. You will need to restart Thunderbird for
>  this to take effect.
>
>  Good luck! 
I tried all of the above. I have the user-set strings defined for my 
particular instance of Google Chrome.

And it accomplishes precisely nothing.

I'm using Thunderbird version 31.7.0 on F22. And still the links resolve 
by starting Firefox, not Chrome.

Where else do I need to reset something?

Temlakos

[Dan Mossor]

On 05/27/2015 05:09 PM, Rick Stevens wrote:
>  On 05/27/2015 11:22 AM, Mickey wrote:
> > Fedora 21/KDE
> >
> > I have in KDE Settings the Google-Chrome as default Web Browser.
> >
> > How do I setup that when I'm reading my Emails in Thunderbird and I
> > click on a Web Link in a email and I want the link to open in Chrome,
> > but it always opens in Firefox. How do I change that ?
>
>  Go to:
>
>       Edit Menu->Preferences->Advanced
>
>  Click on the "General" tab. The lower right side will have a button:
>
>       Config Editor...
>
>  Click on that button, and click the "I'll be careful, I promise"
>  button. Now you're in the config editor.
>
>  In the search box, enter "network.protocol-handler.app.http". Two
>  things are now possible:
>  ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>  A) If nothing shows up, you need to add a couple of entries. Right-click
>  in the window and select "New->String". In the "New String Value"
>  window, type in
>
>       network.protocol-handler.app.http
>
>  and hit ENTER or click "Ok". In the "Enter string value" window, put
> in
>  the FULL path to the chrome binary you want. In my case:
>
>       /opt/google/chrome/chrome
>
>  Press ENTER again or click "Ok" and now you should have a new entry
>  that looks like:
>
>       network.protocol-handler.app.http   user-set   string
>  /opt/google/chrome/chrome
>
>  Repeat that process, but add "network.protocol-handler.app.https" to
>  handle "https://" links in your emails and you should have two entries:
>
>       network.protocol-handler.app.http   user-set   string
>  /opt/google/chrome/chrome
>       network.protocol-handler.app.https  user-set   string
>  /opt/google/chrome/chrome
>
>  ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>  B) There are entries, but they're pointing somewhere else. In this case,
>  just double-click on the entry and in the pop-up window, put in the path
>  to your Chrome binary and press ENTER or click "Ok".
>
>  That oughta do it. Here's the link from Mozilla:
>
>       http://kb.mozillazine.org/Changing_the_web_browser_invoked_by_Thunderbird
>
>  Keep in mind the navigation path they talk about:
>
>       Tools->Options->Advanced->General->Config editor
>
>  is aimed at Windows users. The equivalent for Linux is:
>
>       Edit menu->Preferences->Advanced->General tab->"Config
> Editor..."
>  button
>
>  that I talked about above. You will need to restart Thunderbird for
>  this to take effect.
>
>  Good luck!
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Thanks Rick!
 Thunderbird has been driving me up a wall for quite some 
time. On F20 and F21, it would open all links in FF when the system 
default browser was Google Chrome. Now in F22, I've switched to FF as my 
default browser, but T-bird opened all https links in emails with 
Konquerer. This fixes it.

Dan

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[Ed Greshko]

On 05/28/15 08:35, Mickey wrote:
>  On 05/27/2015 05:45 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
> > xdg-settings get default-web-browser
>
>
>  xdg-settings get default-web-browser
>  google-chrome.desktop
>  
Humm....  That is all I've ever had to do when faced with a similar situation is to
get that set properly.

In chrome, chrome://settings/ do you see under "Default Browser"

The default browser is currently Google Chrome.

(FYI, the setting in KDE settings applies only to KDE applications)

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[Mickey]

On 05/27/2015 05:45 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
>  xdg-settings get default-web-browser 

xdg-settings get default-web-browser
google-chrome.desktop

[Rick Stevens]

On 05/27/2015 11:22 AM, Mickey wrote:
>  Fedora 21/KDE
>
>  I have in KDE Settings the Google-Chrome as default Web Browser.
>
>  How do I setup that when I'm reading my Emails in Thunderbird and I
>  click on a Web Link in a email and I want the link to open in Chrome,
>  but it always opens in Firefox. How do I change that ? 
Go to:

	Edit Menu->Preferences->Advanced

Click on the "General" tab. The lower right side will have a button:

	Config Editor...

Click on that button, and click the "I'll be careful, I promise"
button. Now you're in the config editor.

In the search box, enter "network.protocol-handler.app.http". Two
things are now possible:
------------------------------------------------------------------------
A) If nothing shows up, you need to add a couple of entries. Right-click
in the window and select "New->String". In the "New String Value"
window, type in

	network.protocol-handler.app.http

and hit ENTER or click "Ok". In the "Enter string value" window, put
in
the FULL path to the chrome binary you want. In my case:

	/opt/google/chrome/chrome

Press ENTER again or click "Ok" and now you should have a new entry
that looks like:

	network.protocol-handler.app.http   user-set   string 
/opt/google/chrome/chrome

Repeat that process, but add "network.protocol-handler.app.https" to
handle "https://" links in your emails and you should have two entries:

	network.protocol-handler.app.http   user-set   string 
/opt/google/chrome/chrome
	network.protocol-handler.app.https  user-set   string 
/opt/google/chrome/chrome

------------------------------------------------------------------------
B) There are entries, but they're pointing somewhere else. In this case,
just double-click on the entry and in the pop-up window, put in the path
to your Chrome binary and press ENTER or click "Ok".

That oughta do it. Here's the link from Mozilla:

	http://kb.mozillazine.org/Changing_the_web_browser_invoked_by_Thunderbird

Keep in mind the navigation path they talk about:

	Tools->Options->Advanced->General->Config editor

is aimed at Windows users. The equivalent for Linux is:

	Edit menu->Preferences->Advanced->General tab->"Config Editor..."
button

that I talked about above. You will need to restart Thunderbird for
this to take effect.

Good luck!
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[Kevin Cummings]

On 05/27/2015 05:45 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
>  xdg-settings get default-web-browser 
For me it returns: "xdg-settings: unknown desktop environment"

B^)  I run MATE desktops.

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[Ed Greshko]

On 05/28/15 02:22, Mickey wrote:
>  Fedora 21/KDE
>
>  I have in KDE Settings the Google-Chrome as default Web Browser.
>
>  How do I setup that when I'm reading my Emails in Thunderbird and I click on a Web
> Link in a email and I want the link to open in Chrome, but it always opens in Firefox. How
> do I change that ?  
What does this return?

xdg-settings get default-web-browser

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[Tom Horsley]

On Wed, 27 May 2015 14:22:56 -0400
Mickey wrote:

>  Fedora 21/KDE
>  
>  I have in KDE Settings the Google-Chrome as default Web Browser.
>  
>  How do I setup that when I'm reading my Emails in Thunderbird and I 
>  click on a Web Link in a email and I want the link to open in Chrome, 
>  but it always opens in Firefox. How do I change that ? 
This might help, or it might only confuse you more :-).

http://home.comcast.net/~tomhorsley/game/mimes.html

I only figured out how gnome worked, but I imagine kde
does similar nonsense.

[Ed Greshko]

On 05/28/15 05:55, Kevin Cummings wrote:
>  On 05/27/2015 05:45 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
> > xdg-settings get default-web-browser
>  For me it returns: "xdg-settings: unknown desktop environment"
>
>  B^)  I run MATE desktops.
>  
Oh, and FWIW, I installed MATE desktop on my KDE system which is working as I want in
starting chrome when clicking on a link in T-Bird even thought I get the same output as
you show for the xdg-settings command.

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[Ed Greshko]

On 05/28/15 19:06, Tim wrote:
>  Ed Greshko:
> >> xdg-settings get default-web-browser
>  Kevin Cummings:
> > For me it returns: "xdg-settings: unknown desktop environment"
> >
> > B^)  I run MATE desktops.
>  Likewise, on both counts.  While I don't use Thunderbird, other things
>  do open the right web browser (for my personally set preference).  And
>  for further information, just following up on something later on in the
>  thread:
>
>  [tim@fluffy ~]$ xdg-settings get default-web-browser
>  xdg-settings: unknown desktop environment
>
>  [tim@fluffy ~]$ xdg-settings get default-url-scheme-handler
>  xdg-settings: unknown desktop environment
>
>  [tim@fluffy ~]$ xdg-settings get default-url-scheme-handler 
>  xdg-settings: unknown desktop environment
>  
I installed MATE on my KDE system and indeed it doesn't fully support the xdg
environment.  Notice the difference in the environment variables set...

KDE

XDG_VTNR=1
XDG_SESSION_ID=5
XDG_MENU_PREFIX=kf5-
XDG_SESSION_CLASS=user
XDG_SESSION_PATH=/org/freedesktop/DisplayManager/Session7
XDG_SEAT_PATH=/org/freedesktop/DisplayManager/Seat0
XDG_SESSION_TYPE=x11
XDG_SEAT=seat0
XDG_SESSION_DESKTOP=KDE
XDG_DATA_DIRS=/usr/share/kde-settings/kde-profile/default/share:/usr/local/share:/usr/share
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/1029
XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=KDE

MATE

XDG_VTNR=1
XDG_SESSION_ID=4
XDG_SESSION_CLASS=user
XDG_SESSION_PATH=/org/freedesktop/DisplayManager/Session5
XDG_SEAT_PATH=/org/freedesktop/DisplayManager/Seat0
XDG_SESSION_TYPE=x11
XDG_SEAT=seat0
XDG_SESSION_DESKTOP=
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=/run/user/1029
XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP=

Setting the blank DESKTOP variable to KDE will change the behavior of the commands.

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[Ahmad Samir]

On 28 May 2015 at 13:06, Tim <ignored_mailbox(a)yahoo.com.au&gt; wrote:

>  Ed Greshko:
>  >> xdg-settings get default-web-browser
>
>  Kevin Cummings:
>  > For me it returns: "xdg-settings: unknown desktop environment"
>  >
>  > B^)  I run MATE desktops.
>
>  Likewise, on both counts.  While I don't use Thunderbird, other things
>  do open the right web browser (for my personally set preference).  And
>  for further information, just following up on something later on in the
>  thread:
>
>  [tim@fluffy ~]$ xdg-settings get default-web-browser
>  xdg-settings: unknown desktop environment
>
>  [tim@fluffy ~]$ xdg-settings get default-url-scheme-handler
>  xdg-settings: unknown desktop environment
>
>  [tim@fluffy ~]$ xdg-settings get default-url-scheme-handler
>  xdg-settings: unknown desktop environment
>
>  
You can edit ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list manually, in the
[Default Applications] section put this:
text/html=google-chrome.desktop
x-scheme-handler/https=google-chrome.desktop
x-scheme-handler/http=google-chrome.desktop

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[Tim]

Ed Greshko:
> > xdg-settings get default-web-browser 
Kevin Cummings:
>  For me it returns: "xdg-settings: unknown desktop
> environment"
>  
>  B^)  I run MATE desktops. 
Likewise, on both counts.  While I don't use Thunderbird, other things
do open the right web browser (for my personally set preference).  And
for further information, just following up on something later on in the
thread:

[tim@fluffy ~]$ xdg-settings get default-web-browser
xdg-settings: unknown desktop environment

[tim@fluffy ~]$ xdg-settings get default-url-scheme-handler
xdg-settings: unknown desktop environment

[tim@fluffy ~]$ xdg-settings get default-url-scheme-handler 
xdg-settings: unknown desktop environment

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[Ahmad Samir]

On 28 May 2015 at 02:35, Mickey <binarynut(a)comcast.net&gt; wrote:

>  On 05/27/2015 05:45 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
>
> > xdg-settings get default-web-browser
> >
>
>
>  xdg-settings get default-web-browser
>  google-chrome.desktop
>
>
>  
You need to change the mime handler for x-scheme-handler/https and
x-scheme-handler/https; Try this:
 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

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