Thursday, 5 June 2014

Skype opens links in Firefox instead of default browser (Google Chrome) - Fedora 20 LXDE

I found this solution on the web:
 sudo update-alternatives --config x-www-browser  
And then select wanted browser. But it didn't work for me - it did nothig, no output, nothing to select. (I guessed I had no x-www-browser group)

So I created the "x-www-browser" group in alternatives and set google chrome as my default browser by this command:
 sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/x-www-browser x-www-browser /usr/bin/google-chrome 20  

Now when I write
 sudo update-alternatives --list  
I can see that x-www-browser was added.

Also new link was created in "/usr/bin/":
 $ ll /usr/bin/x-www*  
 lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 31 Jun 4 10:30 /usr/bin/x-www-browser -> /etc/alternatives/x-www-browser  

And now when I click in skype on a link... it's opened in Chrome ;)

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