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Date:      Wed, 20 Jan 2021 22:15:00 -0700
From:      Gary Aitken <freebsd@dreamchaser.org>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Two default browsers?
Message-ID:  <357c6243-20fe-6d6e-c659-3b2486ab354d@dreamchaser.org>
In-Reply-To: <20210120235451.512467cc@gumby.homeunix.com>
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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



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