Using Chromium instead of Chrome?

Suvayu Ali fatkasuvayu+linux at gmail.com
Sun May 5 22:03:58 UTC 2013


On Sun, May 05, 2013 at 09:32:08PM +0000, Beartooth wrote:
> On Sun, 05 May 2013 08:54:54 +0200, Suvayu Ali wrote:
> 
> > What does the following say?
> > 
> >   $ xdg-mime query default text/html
> > 
> > It should give you the desktop file for Chrome.  Change it to the
> > desktop file for Chromium with something like the following.
> > 
> >   $ xdg-mime default <chromium_desktop_file> text/html
> 
> 	OK, I have a doubtless Very Dumb Question (VDQ) to the general 
> case : if I want to change it to, say, Dillo (or Opera, or Midori, 
> or ...), where do I look for this <generic-desktop-file> text/html, and 
> how do I recognize it when I find it? I don't see any candidates where I 
> can think of to look, but maybe I wouldn't.

  $ rpm -ql google-chrome-beta midori firefox | grep desktop
  /opt/google/chrome/google-chrome.desktop
  /usr/share/applications/fedora-midori.desktop
  /usr/share/applications/midori-private.desktop
  /usr/share/applications/firefox.desktop

Does this help?

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Suvayu

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