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devourer

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Registered: 2009-10-21

Posts: 12

Alternative web browser in desktop entry

I'm running Xfce on a shared computer and Firefox is the default browser that everybody in the household uses. I personally prefer Google Chrome and as such, I was wondering if it's possible to instruct a .desktop shortcut to set Chrome as the browser of choice for a specific application, so that when I click on a link it doesn't open in Firefox.
I tried the following after going through the wiki for a bit, but it didn't work:

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Rambox
Comment=Free and Open Source messaging and emailing app that combines common web applications into one.
Exec=env BROWSER=/usr/bin/google-chrome-stable rambox -- %u
StartupWMClass=Rambox
Icon=rambox
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=Network;
X-Desktop-File-Install-Version=0.24
Name[en_US]=Rambox

Is there a way to do this?

Thanks in advance.

Trilby

Inspector Parrot

Registered: 2011-11-29

Posts: 29,524

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Re: Alternative web browser in desktop entry

Why does everbody in the house use the same user?  Create your own user and configure settings as you'd like.

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