[xubuntu-users] Why does Firefox persist as default browser in some contexts...

[fred roller]

Each program may/does have it's own preference setting.  Some software will
call on the system and some, like Thunderbird I believe, will set the
preference locally within itself.

-- Fred

On Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 7:43 PM, Len Philpot <lphilpot01 at gmail.com> wrote:

> ...despite not being visibly set as default? For HTML files in a volume,
> Chrome opens by default. Yet particularly from applications when opening
> HTML help, for example, they all-too-often do so in Firefox.
>
>    - I have Chrome set as the web browser in Preferred Applications.
>    - There are zero references to Firefox (nor Mozilla, for that matter) to
>    be found in the Mime Type Editor.
>    - 'exo-open --launch WebBrowser' launches Chrome
>    - 'update-alternatives' shows Chrome as the "auto mode" default,
>    although there's a manual mode available (not tried that yet)
>    - There are no in-app preferences for default browsers in the apps
>
> What am I missing?
> Thanks.
> --
> *Len Philpot*
> lphilpot01 at gmail.com
> *Sent from Thunderbird on Xubuntu Linux*
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