Allow to set default browser on Ubuntu

[bbondy]

Test plan

#10974 (comment)

1. Set default browser to non Brave browser
2. Open Brave from fresh profile
3. You should see Brave ask to set as default
4. Click Yes, in about:preferences#general, you should see Brave is your
   default browser
5. Check system setting, default browser should be Brave

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Original issue description

Details here:
#429 (comment)

[luixxiul]

Fixed already? #429 (comment)

[bbondy]

nope not fixed yet.

[Sh1d0w]

@bbondy Any info when this will be available for the Linux version?

Thanks

[sarahhodne]

As a workaround, this worked for me:

xdg-mime default brave.desktop text/html
xdg-mime default brave.desktop x-scheme-handler/http
xdg-mime default brave.desktop x-scheme-handler/https
xdg-mime default brave.desktop x-scheme-handler/about

This is assuming you're running a GNOME-like desktop of some kind, not sure if this works on KDE or Xfce or other desktop environments.

[Sh1d0w]

Thanks @henrikhodne

To help others with similar problem, this is what I have done:

vi ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list

And put the following code there:

[Default Applications]
text/html=brave.desktop
x-scheme-handler/http=brave.desktop
x-scheme-handler/https=brave.desktop
x-scheme-handler/about=brave.desktop
x-scheme-handler/unknown=brave.desktop

Brave is now the default browser on the system.

PS. I am using brave on Fedora 24

[willy-b]

This is fixed with #2839, I think. (Tested on Ubuntu 14.04)

[ghost]

I suspect this is similar issue, if Brave is set as default browser all links from other apps put Brave in focus, but do not open in it (just focus, nothing else happens).

Arch Linux with GNOME Desktop, I added mimelist config too, still same issue. Brave compiled with brave-git from AUR.

[molinadavid]

same for me on Ubuntu 16.04

Brave: 0.18.16
rev: 8003c66
Muon: 4.3.6
libchromiumcontent: 60.0.3112.78
V8: 6.0.286.44
Node.js: 7.9.0
Update Channel: dev
OS Platform: Linux
OS Release: 4.4.0-87-generic
OS Architecture: x64

[bsclifton]

+1 from @GGurtner via #10295 (using Linux Mint 17.1 and 17.2)