petesoderman
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I'm a new user of LL, coming from the Windows world. Although I've played with various flavors of Mint in the last few years, I'm trying to move to LL permanently. I'm having a problem on three different machines that's driving me nuts. No matter how many times I set Chromium (or Chrome) as "preferred," when I open the application, it tells me it's not the default. When I click on a hyperlink in an email, I get a box asking me to choose an application (and Chromium is never a "choice." Have seen this problem in Mint occasionally, is this a Linux thing, or is there a permanent fix? Thank you.
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Hi,
Not sure if this is what you need.?
Click Menu > Settings > Settings Manager
Click on Preferred Applications
You can set Web Browser there, mine is "Google Chrome Stable"
Dave
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petesoderman
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Thank you, Dave, yes I know about that. It doesn't seem to work very well. If I set Chromium to "Preferred," and open the application, it tells me it is not the default browser. If I click on a hyperlink, it opens a box where it wants me to choose an application. What I'm looking for, I guess, is a way to set a particular browser (other than Firefox), and a particular email client (other than Thunderbird) as "preferred." The little application that supposedly does that does not work on any of my machines. I installed Chromium via the very useful one-page installation tool, by the way.
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Hello!
Your link works, so you seem to have gotten it right. Thanks!
73 DE N4RPS
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Thanks, Rob.
I don't know if it solved the problem for the OP, though !
....Phil
