Setting the default web browser

Patrick O'Callaghan pocallaghan at gmail.com
Thu Jul 18 13:41:17 UTC 2013


On Thu, 2013-07-18 at 09:01 -0400, Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Thu, 18 Jul 2013 13:21:52 +0100
> Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> 
> > There seem to be far too many competing ways to set up default
> > applications.
> 
> There are near infinite numbers of ways, and if the app you
> are running doesn't pay attention to any of them, it doesn't
> even matter how many there are :-).
> 
> This was the nonsense I went through to try and get
> some stuff working the last time I wanted to change
> something:
> 
> http://home.comcast.net/~tomhorsley/game/mimes.html

Thanks, but .local/share/applications/mimeapps.list already contains:

[Default Applications]
text/html=google-chrome.desktop

So the search continues. I'll take it over to the Evolution list as I
originally intended.

poc



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