Thunderbird with Peppermint OS want to use Chrome as default broswer

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Hi

Have managed to get thunderbird to ask which browser i want to use - but i cannot find where the “Chromium link” is so i can choose this browser - the reason for change is that it seems facter on my acer one than firefox

thanks in advance

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Firstly, lets differentiate between the Chrome, and Chromium web browsers (as you’ve mentioned both in your posting)

Chrome = google-chrome
Chromium = chromium-browser

As far as I know Thunderbird (and anything else) will open links in the default web browser … so you need to make sure chromium-browser is set as the default browser in update-alternatives.

So, in a terminal, run:

sudo update-alternatives --config x-www-browser

You should get an output simlar to

mark@AA1-Blue ~ $ sudo update-alternatives --config x-www-browser [sudo] password for mark: There are 2 choices for the alternative x-www-browser (providing /usr/bin/x-www-browser).

Selection Path Priority Status

  • 0 /usr/bin/chromium-browser 40 auto mode
    1 /usr/bin/chromium-browser 40 manual mode
    2 /usr/bin/firefox 40 manual mode

Press enter to keep the current choice[*], or type selection number:

Enter the number of chromium-browser/google-chrome (in the above example it would be 1) … and hit enter.

in Peppermint, you might ALSO want to go to:-

menu>Preferences>Preferred Applications

and set “Chromium Web Browser” (or Google Chrome) as the default web browser … but to tell the truth this seems to be ignored, so best to use the update-alternatives method.

Another option would be to just uninstall Firefox:

sudo apt-get remove firefox

if Chromium/Chrome is the only browser on the system, it will automagically be the default :wink: