Hi everyone!
I am trying to change my default web browser on Pocket Reform. It opens every link on Chromium, and before installing Chromium, Firefox was default, and I would like to make Librewolf the default. I tried update-alternatives --config x-www-browser but it shows Firefox as default, even though every link opens with Chromium. What am I missing?
I usually let the browser handle that. I turn on the “check for default browser” setting in the one I want to be the default and turn it off in all others.
I’m sure there’s a more elegant way to do this but this has always worked for me so far.
It depends. When you say “it opens”. What application is it that you use to open links with? Because then it depends what mechanism that application uses to determine the default browser. Whatever it is, it is apparently ignoring x-www-browser.
Note, that installing chromium does not just set x-www-browser to chromium. It also sets gnome-www-browser to chromium. So you may want to try using update-alternatives to also change gnome-www-browser back to firefox and see if that helps.
Thanks for the explanation! I think mainly my experience is with Thunderbird, so maybe that is ignoring x-www-browser.