Hi, I want to change my default browser to Mullvad, but it doesn’t show up in the drop down.

  • Nx----@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    3·
    1 year ago

    This is an open issue on the Mullvad Browser GitHub.

    One person in the thread who’s using Pop OS posted this:

    xdg-settings set default-web-browser start-mullvad-browser.desktop

    However they do report the clicked URL not being passed to the browser, so it doesn’t seem to be that good of a solution.

    This reply worked for someone on Arch though.

    I’m having the same issue, so I will try to fix it later and get back to this post if any of these methods work.

    EDIT: I tried both methods. The Arch one did nothing, while the xdg-settings one did set Mullvad Browser as my default, but when I click a link the browser will open on the homepage anyways. So yeah, seems like we gotta wait for this to get fixed by the Mullvad devs.

    • Knuschberkeks@feddit.deOPEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      Thanks for the reply. Yeah it’s not a huge issue, just slightly annoying to always have to copy the URL.

  • humanplayer2English
    1·
    1 year ago

    Maybe this is something you can manually input in dconf-editor? Or via command line? Maybe search for “gnome set default browser command line”