Arch Linux

martvefun

Member

From: The Internets

Registered: 2009-12-19

Posts: 179

Default browser changed firefox -> chromium after upgrade

Hello,

I am using firefox-developer-edition as my main browser but also have chromium installed for testing purposes.
Today, I upgraded my system and, after reboot, noticed my default browser was changed to chromium.
I haven’t used it for weeks so I don’t think it is a user error.
Any idea how was that possible?

Thanks

---

English is not my native language, sorry for the mistakes
Arch amd64, GNOME, Thinkpad

d_fajardo

Member

Registered: 2017-07-28

Posts: 1,653

Re: Default browser changed firefox -> chromium after upgrade

What DE are you using?

martvefun

Member

From: The Internets

Registered: 2009-12-19

Posts: 179

Re: Default browser changed firefox -> chromium after upgrade

Sorry should have mentioned : GNOME (now 46.2)

---

English is not my native language, sorry for the mistakes
Arch amd64, GNOME, Thinkpad

Matalonder

Member

Registered: 2012-06-27

Posts: 25

Re: Default browser changed firefox -> chromium after upgrade

Same thing here, didn't dig into it yet. No DE, Awesome WM over X11

Curiously, both browsers report they're default in settings.

UPD

I dug into it. My ~/.config/mimeapps.list had a bunch of entries with "firefoxdeveloperedition.desktop" under "[Default Applications]". /usr/share/applications/firefoxdeveloperedition.desktop does not exist; it should now be "firefox-developer-edition.desktop" instead.

The change in .desktop file name is introduced in firefox-developer-edition-128.0b3-1

Last edited by Matalonder (2024-06-16 14:02:31)

martvefun

Member

From: The Internets

Registered: 2009-12-19

Posts: 179

Re: Default browser changed firefox -> chromium after upgrade

Thanks for digging into this.
I see, while I have changed back to firefox-dev as my default browser, I still see a few occurrences of “firefoxdeveloperedition.desktop” in the mimeapps.list file. And, same here firefox-developer-edition.desktop does exists but not the one-word version.
So Iguess what happened was that the OS fallback on chromium as had no properly configured default browser available (alphabetical order?).

The change in .desktop file name is introduced in firefox-developer-edition-128.0b3-1

Are you sure? I have the 128.0b2-1 installed.

---

English is not my native language, sorry for the mistakes
Arch amd64, GNOME, Thinkpad

Matalonder

Member

Registered: 2012-06-27

Posts: 25

Re: Default browser changed firefox -> chromium after upgrade

Are you sure? I have the 128.0b2-1 installed.

Oh, I went from "127.0b9" to "128.0b3", so claiming it was specifically b3-1 was far fetched.

Looks like this change: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/ … 6c_243_265 from 128.0b2-1 is the culprit (install -Dvm644 ../$pkgname.desktop "$pkgdir/usr/share/applications/${pkgname//-/}.desktop")