Questions tagged [default-browser]
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How do I change my default browser?
Is there an option to change my default browser for all my applications?
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How can I set which application is launched by 'xdg-open'?
I have run update-alternatives as well as the GNOME Preferred apps selection thing. And all point to have the Chromium browser as the default. Yet, when I run xdg-open http://askubuntu.com, Firefox is ...
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How to set Google Chrome as the default browser?
How can I set Google Chrome as the default browser? If I set it in the browser settings, nothing happens. The browser says it's default, but in preferred applications in Gnome, there's only Firefox to ...
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How do I change the default browser that konsole opens URLs with?
I have google-chrome set as my default web browser in Ubuntu and gnome applications. However, when using konsole, all links open in konqueror, and not google-chrome!
I've tried setting the default ...
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How to launch default web browser from the terminal?
I was wondering what's the terminal command to open the default web browser.
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Link clicked not passed to firefox
When Firefox is set as my default browser, any links cliked in another application open a new blank Firefox window, not a new tab or a new window with the page I want.
Is that a problem with the ...
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Default Browser for certain application
I use google chrome browser for private stuff, but on the same machine I have my work toolset. For work things I use Firefox, and I would be really happy If I could assign it as default for HipChat (...
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Firefox becomes default browser after upgrade. Cannot revert to Google Chrome
Upgraded my notebook to Natty Beta 1 two days ago. All seems to be in order except for a very annoying little thing. I used to have Google Chrome as my default browser, and after the upgrade, this ...
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How do I reset gnome-open/xdg-open to actually open with my preferred browser?
Somehow gnome-open and xdg-open are now hopelessly broken. Setting my default browser in System -> Preferences -> Preferred Applications changes nothing.
When I click on any link that points to a ...
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Ubuntu 14.04 WebBrowser.app does not see flash
The new WebBrowser.app now in Ubuntu 14.04LTS 64bit does not play flash.
I have Adobe flash installed and working both in Firefox and Chrome, but the Browser.app says it is not installed.
When I try ...
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How to change skype default browser
I use Ubuntu 18.04 and I have the following problem.
When I try to open links via Skype it opens Mozilla firefox also I have set google chrome as my default browser.
I tried to find something in ...
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How to change default browser AND the command line parameters used to open a link from gnome-terminal
I basically have the same question that was answered over here:
How do I change the browser that gnome terminal opens links with?
Except I am running on Ubuntu 14.04 and am interested in customizing ...
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Cannot access GIMP help because AppArmor stops it
I just installed GIMP through Ubuntu Software, which I understand uses snap. I tried to access GIMP help but it was blocked. I got this error:
Could not open 'https://docs.gimp.org/2.10/en/gimp-help....
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How do I make all links open in Chromium or Chrome's incognito mode? [duplicate]
How do I configure Ubuntu or Xubuntu such that when I click on a link, Chromium/Chrome opens in "Incognito mode"?