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Re: Firefox insists to be default !?

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Me too. Firefox 95.0.2 in Mate fully updated. I have had this problem 
before but it always sorted itself out later.



On 2022-01-12 14:52, Miroslav Skoric wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> After the recent upgrade of Firefox (and Thunderbird) in oldoldstable 
> (Mate desktop), Firefox always asks me to be default browser, even 
> though I have set it as default in Mate's default applications, and 
> respond to that asking by click on 'dont ask me again'.
>
> Furthermore, Thunderbird is also set as a default email client. 
> However, if I click on a weblink in Thunderbird mail, another 
> Thunderbird session opens (instead opening Firefox). And when I close 
> both software, and return to Mate control panel to check again for 
> default applications ... voila ... Thunderbird seems as magically 
> selected for both mail client and web browser there!
>
> How to prevent that misbehaviour? All worked well with previous 
> versions of Firefox and Thunderbird. What went wrong with new versions?
>
> Misko
>

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