[PLUG-TALK] Brave browser

[John Jason Jordan]

On Tue, 18 Apr 2023 12:06:28 -0700
John Jason Jordan <johnxj at gmx.com> dijo:

>I've been using Brave for awhile now, and I kind of like it. I keep
>having little problems, but one by one I've managed to solve them. At
>the moment something is blocking it from becoming the default browser.
>I clicked on the button in Brave's settings to make it the default, but
>Chromium remains the default. I can't figure out to to change that,
>short of uninstalling Chromium. 

I discovered the command: sudo update-alternatives --config
x-www-browser, which gives a numbered list of installed browsers so you
can select the one you want to be the default. My results were:

sudo update-alternatives --config x-www-browser
There are 4 choices for the alternative x-www-browser (providing
/usr/bin/x-www-browser).
  Selection    Path                       Priority   Status
------------------------------------------------------------
  0            /usr/bin/falkon             80        auto mode
  1            /usr/bin/chromium-browser   40        manual mode
  2            /usr/bin/falkon             80        manual mode
* 3            /usr/bin/firefox            40        manual mode
  4            /usr/bin/konqueror          30        manual mode
Press <enter> to keep the current choice[*], or type selection number: 

Unfortunately, long ago I had set Firefox t be the default browser, but
somehow Chromium has a way to get around it, because when I click on a
link anywhere the link opens in Chromium. If Chromium isn't running it
opens the link in a new Chromium window. And the command doesn't even
see the Brave browser.

/usr/bin/x-www-browser is a shell script. Looking at it with Mousepad
it references only Firefox, with individual commands to make it the
default browser for each of the common desktop environments. No other
browsers are mentioned, so I don't know how the command got the above
apocopated list.

Still trying to figure this out.