[SOLVED] How to make Brave Browser the default browser?

[handy]

After reading a thread on the inherent security of some of the major browsers, I decided to give Brave another run (haven't used it since it first came out). Initially it looks to be a very good browser - time will tell.

The problem that I have is that even though I set Brave to be the default browser in its configuration page, every time I start the browser up I get a flag with a button asking me to make Brave the default browser.

I've checked on git-hub & they think that they have fixed this long running problem. They obviously haven't.

Something else I should add, is that I tried to install brave via the MX-Package Install app' but it just crashed the app - frozen? So I installed the stable version via the Brave website.

[fehlix]

After reading a thread on the inherent security of some of the major browsers, I decided to give Brave another run (haven't The problem that I have is that even though I set Brave to be the default browser in its configuration page, every time I start the browser up I get a flag with a button asking me to make Brave the default browser.

Perhaps this way:
First tell Xfce's exo system the perferred web-browser by opening

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exo-preferred-applications

and select /usr/bin/brave-browser-stable
Next fix the xdg-mime confusion made by the offering of the browser of selecting this browser as the default by running this:

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set -x;  D=brave-browser.desktop; A=/usr/share/applications ; xdg-mime default $D  $(sed -n '/^MimeType=/{s/MimeType=//; s/;/\n/g;p}' $A/$D ); set +x

Which will (in addtion to exo-open system) tell xdg to handle the supported mimetypes by this browser.
Perhaps, somewhere else somthing overlooked ...

[fehlix]

fixed a typo - or two :lipsrsealed:

[andyprough]

Something else I should add, is that I tried to install brave via the MX-Package Install app' but it just crashed the app - frozen? So I installed the stable version via the Brave website.

That's strange, it installed through the MX Package Installer so well for me yesterday. I remember thinking that the devs have really improved the Brave experience on MX since I had tried it last. I wonder why MXPI was crashing?

[handy]

@fehlix, wow, damn good reply that! :D

I didn't even know that the Xfce exo system even existed, let alone that it would be on my Openbox custom job.

The path that I needed to use for (at least) the Brave website install was /opt/brave.com/brave/brave-browser

Then I ran your slick xdg mime confusion killing sed line (whether I needed to or not - I didn't check after the exo thing) & rebooted Openbox, started up Brave & there was no make me default flag anymore. :D

Thank you very much for your time & input fehlix. Very much appreciated.

[Head_on_a_Stick]

After reading a thread on the inherent security of some of the major browsers

If you mean this thread then please note that the issue was one of privacy rather than security, the two are not synonymous.

Perhaps, somewhere else somthing overlooked ...

How about /etc/alternatives/x-www-browser?

If MX set the default browser in exo-preferred-alternatives and ~/.config/mimeapps.list to /usr/bin/x-www-browser then Debian's alternatives system could be used to change the default browser for all applications with a single action. No need for complicated sed commands then :-)

Admittedly it would be more complicated to then add "foreign" browsers like Brave but that's what galternatives is for.