Geary open links with wrong browser

[arnonuehm66]

Hi,

I installed Vivaldi as my go to browser and changed default via settings manager.

• Menu > Settings > Preferrred Applications
• Web Browser > Vivaldi

Everything worked fine until I used Geary instead of Thunderbird. Geary would open all links in Firefox!

After a long search, I could pin-point the problem to wrong xdg-mime settings, which XFCE4’s settings manager wouldn’t change.

[nikgnomic]

If you remove the solution from post#1 and repost it, the reply post can be marked as solved

[arnonuehm66]

Here is my solution:

# Geary opens links in firefox nevertheless vivaldi is set as default in xfce4.
# After looking in xfce4-mime-settings, no problem can be found.
# So check the association via cli:
>$ xdg-mime query default x-scheme-handler/http
>$ xdg-mime query default x-scheme-handler/https

# If it shows still firefox.desktop set to vivaldi-stable.desktop with
>$ xdg-mime default vivaldi-stable.desktop x-scheme-handler/http
>$ xdg-mime default vivaldi-stable.desktop x-scheme-handler/https