Links open in Chromium, not Firefox - how to change?

Budgie Desktop
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Links opened from Telegram, Thunderbird etc. all open in Chromium and not Firefox, which would be my preference. I feel like I’ve tried everything and searched several forums including this one. Can someone point me to the right way to configure the default browser to open links with?

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Hi and welcome

In budgie control center search for default to display your default applications. Your browser can be chosen from the dropdown

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Hi, thanks for the quick reply and the welcoming,

The default web browser is set to Firefox, but links still open in Chromium.

This is 23.04 btw

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Have a look at your local mime types to see if various web associations are set to chrome

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

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The mimeapps.list file doesn’t exist in ~/.local/share/applications/

There is ~/.config/mimeapps.list with the following content:

[Removed Associations]
x-scheme-handler/http=chromium_chromium.desktop;

Changing it to:
[Removed Associations]
x-scheme-handler/http=firefox_firefox.desktop;

and then restarting does nothing.

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File type and app’s associations are stored in :

~/.local/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache

You may try :

grep http ~/.local/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache

to check which app’ is actually associated to http(s).

In Firefox settings → general or main → start → [ set default ]

Or manually modify mimeinfo.cache file with a text editor ( gedit, nano… )

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Thanks Coeur-Noir!

Setting Firefox as the default browser from the browser settings worked! I had missed that it was not set as the default browser, as I knew Chromium was also not set as the default browser. I just assumed the default must be Firefox in that case.