Brave fails to set itself as the default browser

[rajinder-yadav]

Description

After setting brave as the default browser, I still see firefox for some options.

$ xdg-mime query default x-scheme-handler/http
firefox.desktop

$ xdg-mime query default x-scheme-handler/https
firefox.desktop

Only this one is set correctly

$ xdg-settings get default-web-browser
brave-browser.desktop

As a result Firefox is getting opened by some app as the default browser.

Steps to Reproduce

1. open setting
2. set brave to be default browser

Actual result:

see description

Expected result:

brave set as default browser

Reproduces how often:

Brave version (brave://version info)

Version/Channel Information:

• Can you reproduce this issue with the current release? yes
• Can you reproduce this issue with the beta channel?
• Can you reproduce this issue with the nightly channel?

Other Additional Information:

• Does the issue resolve itself when disabling Brave Shields?
• Does the issue resolve itself when disabling Brave Rewards?
• Is the issue reproducible on the latest version of Chrome?

Miscellaneous Information:

[bsclifton]

@rajinder-yadav what distro of Linux are you on? If you're on Arch, we already have a ticket tracking this here:
#2377

[rajinder-yadav]

@bsclifton openSUSE Tumbleweed

[fmarier]

It does look like something is broken on that distro (one of the ones supported by our official packages).

If I do the following on Ubunty 20.04:

1. Run xdg-mime default firefox.desktop x-scheme-handler/https
2. Open brave://settings/getStarted

Brave correctly detects that it's not the default:

and when I click "Make Default", the missing association is changed:

$ xdg-mime query default x-scheme-handler/https
brave-browser-beta.desktop

[jonathansampson]

A Linux (Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS) user Tweeted recently, informing us that the Make Default button was not working for them: https://twitter.com/aiggdev/status/1446498172428333056

Chrome, however, does work: https://twitter.com/aiggdev/status/1446509524857262084

[spylogsster]

unable to reproduce, closing to recheck

[wknapik]

#2377 (comment)

[newbie-02]

Kali, debian based:
brave installed acc. the curl ... receipe,
deactivated gnome-keyring, suspicious and annoying,
brave works, says to be default,
all these xdg mime questions: 'default-browser.desktop',
applications to open something in a browser, e.g. jupyter trying
to open ' http://localhost:8888/....' go to firefox
:-(

[wknapik]

@newbie-02 #2377 (comment)