How to: Set Firefox Flatpak as default for x-www-browser
June 28, 2023 @ 11:52
Here is just a quick one, I want to share.
On my Debian desktop systems (and ubuntu ones before), I install firefox these days from flatpak. The reason for this is obvious, the freshness of the packages I get compared to the ones from debian, which ship always firefox’ ESR version (what would work for most, but I prefer an up-to-date browser
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On XFCE and Gnome you can set the default applications, but that is sometimes not enough. Setting the default value for the x-www-browser link, is necessary so all X-applications use the correct browser for links.
With the update-alternatives command we can change those links. Let’s do this for the firefox flatpak example:
In short this command would do the trick