mime and web pages

[Peter Teuben]

I have a related frustration:   I used KDEconnect to send pages from 
phone to laptop, which is a brilliant workflow for my current corona 
lifestyle.

It will pop the page it into a firefox tab (a new one), but every now 
and then it will open it in Kate !!!!! This baffles me. In kubuntu 
(which I use) i can clearly see the browser as the first choice, 
although I see more choices. I could remove them all, but kind of don't 
want to do this.

peter

On 8/17/20 8:52 AM, Karl Auer wrote:
> 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.
>