Each program may/does have it's own preference setting. Some software will call on the system and some, like Thunderbird I believe, will set the preference locally within itself.
-- Fred On Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 7:43 PM, Len Philpot <lphilpo...@gmail.com> wrote: > ...despite not being visibly set as default? For HTML files in a volume, > Chrome opens by default. Yet particularly from applications when opening > HTML help, for example, they all-too-often do so in Firefox. > > - I have Chrome set as the web browser in Preferred Applications. > - There are zero references to Firefox (nor Mozilla, for that matter) to > be found in the Mime Type Editor. > - 'exo-open --launch WebBrowser' launches Chrome > - 'update-alternatives' shows Chrome as the "auto mode" default, > although there's a manual mode available (not tried that yet) > - There are no in-app preferences for default browsers in the apps > > What am I missing? > Thanks. > -- > *Len Philpot* > lphilpo...@gmail.com > *Sent from Thunderbird on Xubuntu Linux* > > -- > xubuntu-users mailing list > xubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com > Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/ > mailman/listinfo/xubuntu-users > >
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