Rocket.chat.electron: New option for open link with browser

[Xarkam]

Hello,

following a remark from my wife, would it be possible to add a function to configure the browser to use to open the links?

In his company, IE11 is defined as the default browser (under win7) and can not be modified.

Thanks.

[naidu]

I would like to see this feature for Linux clients as well.

[dmitrii-maksimov]

i have default Chrome, but opened by Firefox. would like this feature too.

[philshem]

This would be a great feature, and it seems to already exist in the iOS client
https://github.com/RocketChat/Rocket.Chat.iOS/issues/208

[nicholasphair]

On linux, RocketChat rightfully defers to xdg for the browser. To see the current value run,

xdg-settings get default-web-browser

and to set your default browser run,

# for firefox...
xdg-settings set default-web-browser firefox.desktop

# for chrome...
xdg-settings set default-web-browser google-chrome.desktop

See /usr/share/applications for other browsers.

[purplesrl]

Actually on Linux, I already have it set to chromium-browser:

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

But it opens firefox.

I think its related to snapd or there is some bug inside it, it worked fine with the .deb rocketchat

[purplesrl]

Update: My solution was to remove firefox from the system and then chromium worked as expected, rocketchat-desktop started using chromium. I do not have time to investigate further.

1. quit rocketchat
2. sudo apt remove firefox 
3. sudo systemctl restart snapd
4. start rocketchat

Actually I did some more research and the issue is not related to rocketchat but to snapd, xdg-open in snap is replaced with:

#!/bin/sh
exec snapctl user-open "$@"

if len(os.Args) == 3 && os.Args[1] == "user-open" {
        if err := xdgopenproxy.Run(os.Args[2]); err != nil {
            fmt.Fprintf(os.Stderr, "user-open error: %v\n", err)
            os.Exit(1)
        }
        os.Exit(0)
    }
..............
func Run(urlOrFile string) error {
    bus, err := dbus.SessionBus()
    if err != nil {
        return err
    }
    defer bus.Close()
    launcher := bus.Object("io.snapcraft.Launcher", "/io/snapcraft/Launcher")
    return launch(launcher, urlOrFile)
}
............
func openUrl(launcher dbus.BusObject, url string) error {
    return launcher.Call("io.snapcraft.Launcher.OpenURL", 0, url).Err
}


[D-BUS Service]
Name=io.snapcraft.Launcher
Exec=@bindir@/snap userd
AssumedAppArmorLabel=unconfined

[gardouille]

For Linux

xdg-settings set … wasn't enough for me.

Be sure that result of xdg-settings get default-web-browser is also set to almost all "web" values in ~/.config/mimeapps.list

Example with qutebrowser :

xdg-settings get default-web-browser
org.qutebrowser.qutebrowser.desktop

grep qutebrowser ~/.config/mimeapps.list
[Default Applications]
x-scheme-handler/http=org.qutebrowser.qutebrowser.desktop
x-scheme-handler/https=org.qutebrowser.qutebrowser.desktop
x-scheme-handler/ftp=org.qutebrowser.qutebrowser.desktop
x-scheme-handler/chrome=org.qutebrowser.qutebrowser.desktop
text/html=org.qutebrowser.qutebrowser.desktop
application/x-extension-htm=org.qutebrowser.qutebrowser.desktop
application/x-extension-html=org.qutebrowser.qutebrowser.desktop
application/x-extension-shtml=org.qutebrowser.qutebrowser.desktop
application/xhtml+xml=org.qutebrowser.qutebrowser.desktop
x-scheme-handler/about=org.qutebrowser.qutebrowser.desktop
x-scheme-handler/unknown=org.qutebrowser.qutebrowser.desktop

I also have the gnome-www-browser and x-www-browser alternatives set to qutebrowser's path :

sudo update-alternatives --config gnome-www-browser
There are 3 choices for the alternative gnome-www-browser (providing /usr/bin/gnome-www-browser).

  Selection    Path                  Priority   Status
------------------------------------------------------------
* 0            /usr/bin/qutebrowser   200       auto mode
  1            /usr/bin/chromium      40        manual mode
  2            /usr/bin/firefox-esr   70        manual mode
  3            /usr/bin/qutebrowser   200       manual mode



sudo update-alternatives --config x-www-browser
There are 3 choices for the alternative x-www-browser (providing /usr/bin/x-www-browser).

  Selection    Path                  Priority   Status
------------------------------------------------------------
* 0            /usr/bin/qutebrowser   200       auto mode
  1            /usr/bin/chromium      40        manual mode
  2            /usr/bin/firefox-esr   70        manual mode
  3            /usr/bin/qutebrowser   200       manual mode