Default Browser / Opening Hyperlinks

[Flawed]

Hello, just posting this thread asking for some advice surrounding the default browser when trying to open links. I have tried multiple ways of setting it as default non of them have seemed to work.

Note: I'm trying to set Chrome as my default.

update-alternatives --config x-www-browser

I have tried manually setting it using the command above

 ln -s /opt/google/chrome/google-chrome.desktop /usr/share/applications/google-chrome.desktop

I seen yelow79's guide on making it default using that code then going into the details panel but it still leaves the box grayed out.



In short: Default browser can't be set due to grayed out, hyperlinks don't open because of this.

If anyone knows how I can fix this please reply

[yelow79]

this command should allow you to see google-chrome in the drop down menu for web

ln -s /opt/google/chrome/google-chrome.desktop /usr/share/applications/google-chrome.desktop

you should be able to just copy and paste this.

what it does is make a sim link of /opt/google/chrome/google-chrome.desktop into /usr/share/applications/