Setting the default web browser

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Thu, 2013-07-18 at 15:36 +0300, Veeti Paananen wrote:
> On 18/07/13 15:21, 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
> 
> Does the "Default Applications" section in KDE's "System Settings" have
> Chrome set?

Yes. However as Evolution is a Gnome browser I don't expect it to pay
any attention to that.

BTW I've only now noticed that I sent this to the Fedora Users list. I
had meant to sent it to the Evolution list, which is why I didn't
mention Evo explicitly. Apologies all round, but any information is
still welcome.

poc

poc