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Similar to this question Why does removing Firefox install another browser? when I try to remove Firefox installed via apt, apt tries to install Chromium as an alternative as I have dependencies that require a browser to be installed.

I'm using Firefox flatpak from flathub and have set this to default in Gnome-settings and xdg:

$ xdg-settings get default-web-browser
org.mozilla.firefox.desktop

How do I set the Flatpak Firefox to satisfy the apt browser requirement?

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  • I'm having a different, but possibly related problem; I haven't figured out quite what's going on yet, but one thing I noticed is that there are (why? I don't know yet) several different firefox-related .desktop files in various places. The launcher was for some reason pointing to the wrong one and that was messing up the the default setting (not sure how/why yet). So maybe just to rule it out, search and make sure you don't have more than one .desktop, and that you are pointing to the right one?
    – LSharkey
    Aug 20, 2022 at 18:58
  • This page has some detailed info about where, and in what order, flatpak looks for .desktop files. Might be helpful: docs.flatpak.org/en/latest/conventions.html
    – LSharkey
    Aug 20, 2022 at 22:27

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