Setting the default web browser

[Craig White]

On Thu, 2013-07-18 at 14:33 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> 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.
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just as an FYI - I asked the same question last month and crickets...

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/users/2013-June/436458.html

Craig


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