Firefox keeps asking for being set as default browser when GTK_USE_PORTAL=1 is s...

Shmerl

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3 years ago

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:65.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/65.0

Steps to reproduce:

According to KDE developers recommendation, I tried enabling native KDE dialog integration with Firefox using xdg-desktop-portal-kde, and noticed that Firefox keeps asking about being set as default browser on each startup.

System: Debian testing Linux, Firefox 65.0b6.

I installed:
xdg-desktop-portal 1.0.3
xdg-desktop-portal-kde 5.14.3

Set in $HOME/.profile:

export GTK_USE_PORTAL=1

Applications > Default Applications > Web Browser already set to Firefox.

When GTK_USE_PORTAL is not set, it's not asking after first time.

I also noticed, that Firefox normally remembers this setting after creating a NoDisplay .desktop file in $HOME/.local/share/applications

Such as:

$HOME/.local/share/applications/userapp-Firefox-IIJAUZ.desktop

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Version=1.0
Type=Application
NoDisplay=true
Exec=/opt/mozilla/firefox/firefox-bin %u
Name=Firefox
Comment=Custom definition for Firefox

This is not visible in menu and not available to System Settings choice (because of NoDisplay=true), so I usually create another .desktop file there, to expose Firefox. Something like:

$HOME/.local/share/applications/Firefox.desktop 

[Desktop Entry]
Comment=
Exec=/opt/mozilla/firefox/firefox %u
GenericName=Mozilla Firefox
Icon=/home/user/pictures/icons/firefox.png
MimeType=application/x-www-browser;
Name=Firefox
NoDisplay=false
StartupNotify=false
Terminal=false
TerminalOptions=
Type=Application
X-KDE-SubstituteUID=false
X-KDE-Username=
Categories=Network;WebBrowser;

This way it can be selected in System Settings > Applications > Default Applications > Web Browser.

Something between these two and xdg desktop portal goes wrong I suppose.

Corresponding KDE bug https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=402206 was closed and KDE developers suggested it's a Firefox issue.

Can you please take a look?