right clicking link and hitting "open in browser" does nothing

[gituser2194]

uname -a

Linux user-NY614AA-ABA-p6234f 4.13.0-17-generic #20-Ubuntu SMP Mon Nov 6 10:04:08 UTC 

2017 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux

snap list | grep hexchat

hexchat        2.12.4     17    tingping       -

loginctl show-session 6 -p Type:

Type=wayland

cat /usr/share/gnome/gnome-version.xml:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
    <gnome-version>
         <platform>3</platform>
         <minor>26</minor>
         <micro>1</micro>
         <distributor>Ubuntu</distributor>
    </gnome-version>

[TingPing]

I believe there is a snap related package to enable that but I don't remember it off hand and would assume its installed by default.