Set as default browser doesn't work on Linux

[agilob]

Description

Clicking on set as default browser doesn't work. Brave is not set as default browser and the text above the button doesn't change from Brave is not your default browser..

Brave Version

about:brave info:

Brave: 0.19.48
rev: de939f6
Muon: 4.4.28
libchromiumcontent: 61.0.3163.100
V8: 6.1.534.41
Node.js: 7.9.0
Update Channel: Release
OS Platform: Linux
OS Release: 4.13.5-1-ARCH
OS Architecture: x64

Additional Information

Installed from https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/brave-bin

[bsclifton]

cc: @darkdh who recently made changes with this

@agilob what window manager are you using? @darkdh had fixed this (and I tested) on GTK based window managers, like Gnome and Unity

[agilob]

@agilob what window manager are you using?

Plasma5

[darkdh]

@agilob ,

Could you run these commands on your terminal and tell us the result of it?

xdg-settings get default-web-browser
xdg-settings check default-web-browser brave.desktop
xdg-settings get default-url-scheme-handler http
xdg-settings get default-url-scheme-handler https
xdg-settings check default-url-scheme-handler http brave.desktop
xdg-settings check default-url-scheme-handler https brave.desktop

Thanks

[agilob]

➜  ~ xdg-settings get default-web-browser
brave.desktop
➜  ~ xdg-settings check default-web-browser brave.desktop
no
➜  ~ xdg-settings get default-url-scheme-handler http
firefox.desktop
➜  ~ xdg-settings get default-url-scheme-handler https
firefox.desktop
➜  ~ xdg-settings check default-url-scheme-handler http brave.desktop
no
➜  ~ xdg-settings check default-url-scheme-handler https brave.desktop
no

I think this might be useful, when I went to control panel and checked default browser there, there was no default:

So I clicked on a link in thunderbird, the link was opened in firefox. I cltr+click on a link from a terminal and it was also opened in firefox.

Brave is available on the list of browsers but wasn't set:

[eljuno]

+1 from community https://community.brave.com/t/setting-brave-as-default-browser-causes-firefox-to-be-launched-instead/9435?u=eljuno

After installing brave, it asks if you want to set it as your default browser. Whether doing this at this time, or later through the settings menu, whenever a link is clicked from some other program that’s expected to launch the default browser (e.g. Mozilla Thunderbird), Firefox ends up getting launched instead.

User use Ubuntu. More info: https://community.brave.com/t/setting-brave-as-default-browser-causes-firefox-to-be-launched-instead/9435/3?u=eljuno

Brave: 0.19.53
rev: e09025b
Muon: 4.4.29
libchromiumcontent: 61.0.3163.100
V8: 6.1.534.41
Node.js: 7.9.0
Update Channel: Release
OS Platform: Linux
OS Release: 4.10.0-35-generic
OS Architecture: x64