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emorkay

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From: India

Registered: 2012-06-06

Posts: 43

Firefox not Default Browser

Hi,

I am using gnome-shell. And, I have set firefox to be default browser to open links and all html files in

/usr/share/applications/defaults.list

.
While gnome-shell in Settings-->Details-->Deafult Applications lists firefox as default browser, firefox is still complaining that it's not.
I have checked using xdg-mime what the default application for x-scheme-handler/http and x-scheme-handler/https is and it is firefox as expected.

What I fail to understand is what file firefox checks to determine if it's the default browser.

/usr/share/applications/defaults.list

used to work just fine.

Something seems to have changed in the last couple updates of firefox.

Please help.

Thanks,

karol

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Registered: 2009-05-06

Posts: 25,440

Re: Firefox not Default Browser

Post the output of

pacman -Qs firefox | grep firefox

emorkay

Member

From: India

Registered: 2012-06-06

Posts: 43

Re: Firefox not Default Browser

hi,
following is the output:

local/arch-firefox-search 0.8.2-6
local/firefox 38.0.1-1

Thanks,

emorkay

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From: India

Registered: 2012-06-06

Posts: 43

Re: Firefox not Default Browser

Someone please help me!

Alad

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Re: Firefox not Default Browser

Please help yourself.

http://standards.freedesktop.org/mime-a … 1.0.1.html

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emorkay

Member

From: India

Registered: 2012-06-06

Posts: 43

Re: Firefox not Default Browser

HI,

Sorry for the delay in responding. I have tried all those files but still firefox seems to have a problem. It used to work just fine with just a defaults.list file in /usr/share/applications directory. It had stopped working for about a month and I don't know what caused it. gnome-shell (v3.16) is recognising the default browser just fine. Only firefox is complaining about it. Otherwise I have no issues.

It's not very important but I just would like to know what's going wrong.

Thank you for your time.

Last edited by emorkay (2015-06-08 12:43:51)