[PLUG-TALK] Brave browser

[John Jason Jordan]

On Tue, 18 Apr 2023 12:47:45 -0700
John Jason Jordan <johnxj at gmx.com> dijo:

>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. 

Posted just now on the Ubuntu forums:

OK, I did it. I uninstalled Chromium. Then I tried to set Brave to be
the default browser, but the button still didn't appear to activate,
and when I clicked on a link outside of Brave nothing happened. This
tells me that somewhere deep inside my Xubuntu 22.04 (up to date) there
is a setting that intercepts all 'open in browser' links and sends them
to Chromium, and when Chromium is missing, the command just fails.

Assuming I am correct, this makes me angry. I don't know whether to
blame Chromium developers or Ubuntu developers, but Ubuntu shouldn't
allow an application installation to make such fundamental changes to
the OS. At least, if they do, a means to undo it must be readily
available to the user. In spite of my years with Ubuntu, if I have to
reinstall, it won't be Ubuntu.