using preferred browser instead of firefox

[Duncan_Idaho]

greetings, first of all I don't know if this count as a bug, but I think it's an improvement so I post it here.

I don't use firefox and I'm tired that every time I click on the desktop shortcut for the irc channel, or the CUPS interface in the menu, it opens firefox instead of whatever browser is my default browser.
so after fooling around for a bit, I found that exo-open can call a web browser instance, and not just any browser but the one you have selected as default browser in the preferred applications dialog.
I've tested it changing my default browser and it works just fine
so instead of using

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firefox www.whatever.com

in shorcuts or menu entries, you could use

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exo-open --launch WebBrowser www.whatever.com

to launch in whatever browser is set as default

I hope somebody find this useful

[gapan]

The problem is that this way it will only work in xfce.

[Shador]

Exactly.
If you really don't want firefox, you could try changing the /usr/bin/firefox symlink to point at your preferred browser. But this is somewhat error prone because for firefox actually valid arguments could become invalid.

[Duncan_Idaho]

ok I get your point,
exo-open would be useless to anyone not using xfce

[thenktor]

We are not Ubuntu

[JRD]

What about xdg-open ? It's freedesktop-compliant.

[gapan]

What about xdg-open ? It's freedesktop-compliant.

That's probably a good idea.