mime and web pages

[Karl Auer]

I want to open specific browsers (or more generally, pass specific URLS
to specific programs) within the Ubuntu desktop.

For example, if I receive an email with a link in it, and click on that
link, I want to pass that link to a specific program.

I've spent quite  bit of time googling around mime types and so on, but
everything I find is about opening files, not links. I've also looked
at xdg-open, xdg-settings etc, but I cannot figure out what xdg-open is
looking at when it decides to run Firefox, either! It's allegedly
mimeapps.list, but it is definitely not using the one in my home
directoy and the others seem to belong to various snaps.

Another way to look it this would be to say I want to substitute my own
program for Firefox as far as what is used to open links.

Yours hopefully, K.

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