In my case there was a pending update of Chrome. After re-launching it the option for setting Chrome as default bowser was available again in: Apple menu > System Preferences -> General -> ”Default web browser”
To set a default browser, make sure that a .desktop file exists for your preferred browser. I’ll be setting Mozilla Iceweasel for this example: ls /usr/share/applications/iceweasel.desktop Output: iceweasel.desktop Assured you have the file, run: xdg-settings set default-web-browser iceweasel.desktop # Test that it works xdg-open “http://example.com” If you don’t have a .desktop file: I use the … Read more