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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon eneshecan

Links won't open in the desired (default) browser profile

Open Lupccs opened this issue 1 year ago • 0 comments

Description On the current linux user, the default browser is not set to be simply chrome, but a chrome profile: I added a custom .desktop file in my .local/share/applications/ that uses this line to launch chrome and every link:

/usr/bin/google-chrome-stable --user-data-dir=/home/USER/.config/CUSTOMCHROME --profile-directory=Default

and it works perfectly in all the other contexts, but Whatsapp-for-linux opens links with the standard google-chrome profile

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

  1. Open whatsapp-for-linux and write any url to one of your contacts, like www.ebay.com
  2. Click on the link created by the message
  3. Link opens in a new profile, which is not the user's default: like it was using /usr/bin/google-chrome-stable

Expected behavior link should open in a custom chrome profile in a custom user data directory directory , like it was using /usr/bin/google-chrome-stable --user-data-dir=/home/USER/.config/CUSTOMCHROME --profile-directory=Default

Environment

  • Distro = Kde Neon 20.04, all updates installed
  • Package = .deb 1.6.3
  • Desktop Environment or Window Manager = Kde Plasma
  • Using latest chrome .deb package

Lupccs avatar Jun 30 '23 17:06 Lupccs