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Boris Bolgradov

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From: Bulgaria

Registered: 2008-07-27

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[SOLVED] How to set Opera as a default web browser?

Opera doesn't have a "Set as default browser" button. Firefox is currently set as default, but I don't like it for a reason, so I installed Opera. By "default browser" I mean that clicking on a URL link in any other application (Skype, for example), Firefox opens.

I remember that in Debian/Ubuntu I could do "update-alternatives --config x-www-browser" and then set the desired browser.

*edit: As a workaround I temporarily created a soft link to Opera as /usr/bin/firefox.

Last edited by Boris Bolgradov (2009-07-16 13:50:02)

EVRAMP

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From: Czech Republic

Registered: 2008-10-03

Posts: 173

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Re: [SOLVED] How to set Opera as a default web browser?

According to specifications every file manager or desktop should respect file ~/.local/share/applications/defaults.list
Add this

text/html=opera.desktop

Same action should be causing clicking on Open with option in your file manager and change the default app.

Nezmer

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Registered: 2008-10-24

Posts: 559

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Re: [SOLVED] How to set Opera as a default web browser?

export BROWSER="opera"

add the line to '~/.bashrc' or '~/.zshrc' .

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