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Ask Ubuntu Asked by AboElnouR on November 28, 2021

I use Ubuntu 18.04 and I have the following problem.

When I try to open links via Skype it opens Mozilla firefox also I have set google chrome as my default browser.

I tried to find something in skype settings but I found nothing related to the application default browser

18.04default browserskype

4 Answers

To make it work with snap do the following:

  1. Quit skype
  2. ln -s ~/.config/mimeapps.list ~/snap/skype/common/.config/mimeapps.list
  3. rm -rf ~/snap/skype/common/.config/google-chrome
  4. sudo ln -s ~/.config/google-chrome ~/snap/skype/common/.config/

Answered by atefth on November 28, 2021

For me, the following command immediately fixed the issue:

ln -s ~/.config/mimeapps.list ~/snap/skype/common/.config/mimeapps.list

Answered by Adam on November 28, 2021

I resolved the problem following below steps.

  1. Uninstall Firefox and open any link in Skype (agree with the alert)
  2. Delete (rename) ~ /snap/skype/common/.config/google-chrome
  3. sudo ln -s /home/user/.config/google-chrome /home/user/snap/skype/common/.config/

Answered by Andrei Kukareko on November 28, 2021

Installing packages from the Ubuntu software center using snap have some issues.

"snap", a new cross-OS package manager. Snap will be much better than APT one day, but right now it's in the beginning stages and experiencing growing pains.

I removed skype from the software center and I downloaded the .deb file from Official Skype website.

Then I installed it using dpkg which solved the problem.

Note: this answer inspired me.

Answered by AboElnouR on November 28, 2021

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