[PLUG-TALK] Brave browser

[Ben Koenig]

------- Original Message -------
On Tuesday, April 18th, 2023 at 12:47 PM, John Jason Jordan <johnxj at gmx.com> wrote:


> On Tue, 18 Apr 2023 12:35:26 -0700
> Dick Steffens dick at dicksteffens.com dijo:
> 
> > On 4/18/23 12:06, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> > 
> > > On Mon, 17 Apr 2023 00:26:21 -0700
> > > John Jason Jordanjohnxj 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.
> 
> > Is there a setting in Chromium to have it always be the default
> > browser? I recall a similar setting in some program that says
> > something to the effect of always check to see that it is the default
> > browser. (I think that is/was Firefox.)
> 
> 
> In Chromium under Settings > Default browser, there is a popup that
> 
> says 'Chromium is your default browser.' There is no button on the
> popup to make any changes. It's just an announcement. If you install
> Chromium it will be your default browser, and you will like it.
> 
> I should add that in Firefox > Settings > Startup it says 'Firefox is
> 
> not your default browser,' so the results of the update-alternatives
> command are seriously bogus, since they say that Firefox is the default
> browser.
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The default browser isn't set by the browser, it's set by the desktop environment. If Brave is unable to change it then thats probably a minor software bug on their end. 

Malicious browsers are those that look outside their own environment to determine if they are the default browser, then bully the user into making a change. Don't use the browser, go into your desktop settings and set it yourself. Unless you happen to be running Windows this should work fine. 

-Ben