On 06/04/18 11:27, R. G. Newbury wrote:
Ooops we are talking about two different things.
xdg-open
http://fedoraproject.org opens the chrome browser and loads the fedora
page, *but only does so from the command line*.
Actually, we aren't talking about 2 different things.
What I am searching for, is a solution, which allows we to right-click on a url,
and select 'Open Link in Browser' and have the same result.
What you want to happen is to right click a URL in a T-Bird message and select "Open
Link in Browser" and have it open chrome. Yes?
At present, NOTHING happens when I do the right-click thing. It does not matter if
chrome is open or not: nothing happens.
It is neat that xdg-open does what it does, but, as noted, command line only, which
kinda defeats the urge to "just click that random link - you know you want to".
T-Bird follows, the xdg standards.
If the contents of my ~/.config/mimeapps.list contains
[Default Applications]
text/html=google-chrome.desktop
x-scheme-handler/http=google-chrome.desktop
x-scheme-handler/https=google-chrome.desktop
when I do as above it will open the link in chrome. If, it contains
[Default Applications]
text/html=firefox.desktop
x-scheme-handler/http=firefox.desktop
x-scheme-handler/https=firefox.desktop
it will open firefox.
What is in your ~/.config/mimeapps.list ?
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