From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Thu Jan 21 05:19:48 2021 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95E5F4E9FF1 for ; Thu, 21 Jan 2021 05:19:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@dreamchaser.org) Received: from nightmare.dreamchaser.org (ns.dreamchaser.org [66.109.141.57]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "dreamchaser.org", Issuer "R3" (verified OK)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4DLrLC5KCjz4tZY for ; Thu, 21 Jan 2021 05:19:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@dreamchaser.org) Received: from breakaway.dreamchaser.org (breakaway [192.168.151.122]) by nightmare.dreamchaser.org (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTP id 10L5JkED009681 for ; Wed, 20 Jan 2021 22:19:46 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from freebsd@dreamchaser.org) From: Gary Aitken Subject: Re: Two default browsers? To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <931ec930-6b63-e89b-f46f-f9e34d58178f@dreamchaser.org> <1b7897bd-b58b-d7e4-e35d-8e851611fb75@gmail.com> <7900c67d-063c-9dc9-dcc7-2bbe6f693afd@dreamchaser.org> <20210120235451.512467cc@gumby.homeunix.com> Reply-To: freebsd@dreamchaser.org Message-ID: <357c6243-20fe-6d6e-c659-3b2486ab354d@dreamchaser.org> Date: Wed, 20 Jan 2021 22:15:00 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.11.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20210120235451.512467cc@gumby.homeunix.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.6.2 (nightmare.dreamchaser.org [192.168.151.101]); Wed, 20 Jan 2021 22:19:46 -0700 (MST) X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4DLrLC5KCjz4tZY X-Spamd-Bar: / Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; dkim=none; dmarc=none; spf=pass (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of freebsd@dreamchaser.org designates 66.109.141.57 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=freebsd@dreamchaser.org X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-0.28 / 15.00]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; HAS_REPLYTO(0.00)[freebsd@dreamchaser.org]; MID_RHS_MATCH_FROM(0.00)[]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; RBL_DBL_DONT_QUERY_IPS(0.00)[66.109.141.57:from]; R_SPF_ALLOW(-0.20)[+mx:c]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_ALL(0.00)[]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; REPLYTO_ADDR_EQ_FROM(0.00)[]; PREVIOUSLY_DELIVERED(0.00)[freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]; RCPT_COUNT_ONE(0.00)[1]; SPAMHAUS_ZRD(0.00)[66.109.141.57:from:127.0.2.255]; TO_DN_NONE(0.00)[]; NEURAL_SPAM_SHORT(1.00)[0.999]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-1.00)[-1.000]; DMARC_NA(0.00)[dreamchaser.org]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-0.98)[-0.978]; RCVD_TLS_LAST(0.00)[]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; R_DKIM_NA(0.00)[]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; ASN(0.00)[asn:21947, ipnet:66.109.128.0/19, country:US]; SUBJECT_ENDS_QUESTION(1.00)[]; MAILMAN_DEST(0.00)[freebsd-questions]; RCVD_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2] X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.34 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2021 05:19:48 -0000 On 1/20/21 4:54 PM, RW via freebsd-questions wrote: >>> On 1/20/21 1:48 PM, Graham Perrin wrote: >>>> On 20/01/2021 17:57, Gary Aitken wrote: >> >>>> I have two browsers installed, firefox and chrome. They both claim >>>> to be the default browser, and neither will allow me to change it. >> ... >>> This question might ultimately be irrelevant, but what's your >>> desktop environment? >> >> startx/.xinitrc using xfce4 > > Have a look at xfce's "Preferred Applications" under settings. > > It probably doesn't matter whether chromium thinks it's the default, > if xdg-open is opening the browser. Thanks, that did the trick. I only now realized this screw-up was the result of a power outage where my UPS died prematurely due to a battery going EOL. Thunderbird preferences were partially reset, but firefox and chromium didn't seem to be. Thanks again, Gary