Thunderbird does not respect the default browser setting. [SOLVED]

[Erik P. Olsen]

On 09/03/13 12:10, Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 03/09/13 18:31, Erik P. Olsen wrote:
>> On 08/03/13 07:46, Ed Greshko wrote:
>>> On 03/08/13 14:05, Frantisek Hanzlik wrote:
>>>> Hmm, there should be possible set default browser for individual
>>>> users, not only as system global.
>>>
>>> Yes, there is....
>>>
>>> xdg-settings is supposed to be the command to set that up.  However, I've found it to be buggy.  So, you can manually edit
>>>
>>> $HOME/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list
>>>
>> Changing this mimeapps.list does nothing. There are two defaults.list on my system: In /usr/local/share/applications/ and in /usr/share/applications/
>>
>> Changing defaults.list only works in /usr/share/applications/ and copying it to $HOME/.local/share/applications/ has no effect either.
>>
>
> I should mention I'm running KDE.  If you are using GNOME, you may want to try installing gconf-editor and checking the settings for desktop-->gnome-->url-handlers-->http  and  https.
>
I am actually running XFCE.

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Erik

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