[Xfce-bugs] [Bug 16187] XFCE doesn't open default browser

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Wed Jan 29 06:02:58 CET 2020


https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=16187

--- Comment #16 from Maurizio Galli <maurizio.galli at gmail.com> ---

> However some applications like Firefox, Thunderbird and Evolution would not
> be able to identify themselves as being set as defaults  since they don't
> read the helpers.rc file. Depending on how the distro sets them up they
> might prompt a dialog asking the user to make them Default and as
> consequence change mimeapps.list with their own desktop file instead of the
> exo one,  if the user chooses to answer "yes".

To clarify the above: 
Even if mimeapps.list is modified by another application, i.e Firefox,
Evolution, Thunderbird, etc, every time you select a web browser or mail client
in "Preferred Applications", exo will set again the appropriate application in
mimeapps.list.

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