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Some applications don't follow default browser settings



Hi all,

I'm using Google Chrome (/opt/google/chrome/google-chrome) as my default browser, which is set by `update-alternatives` command. However my firefox-esr is always launching when links are opened in Telegram and Mozilla Thunderbird.

I'd like to know why firefox-esr is launching, and how can i switch to Chrome? I'm not gonna removing my Firefox :(

Some information attached:

    $ readlink -f /usr/bin/x-www-browser
    /opt/google/chrome/google-chrome

    $ xdg-settings get default-web-browser
    google-chrome.desktop

    $ cat ~/.config/mimeapps.list
    [Default Applications]
    x-scheme-handler/tg=userapp-Telegram Desktop-ZS5OS1.desktop
    text/html=google-chrome.desktop

    [Added Associations]
    x-scheme-handler/tg=userapp-Telegram Desktop-ZS5OS1.desktop;
    text/html=google-chrome.desktop;


Any help is appreciated, thanks!

Tianyu Chen


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