With this, a new opt-in system for users to contribute their data and help improve its search results is also being launched.Īs of now, Brave Search is a free service and does not display any ads. The company claims its search engine does not track users, their searches, or their clicks. The move of boosting the search engine reflects the confidence in the new privacy-focused service and is notable for being built as an independent index of the web. However, Brave claims its browser had almost 40 million active users per month, as of September 2021. Xdg-settings set default-web-browser brave-browser.Being small, the browser’s market share does not even register against established competitors like Chrome, Safari, Edge, and Opera, as per the data from StatCounter. In short, if you want to set your default browser everywhere (using Brave in this example), do the following: sudo update-alternatives -config x-www-browser I suppose this means you could have one browser for insecure HTTP sites (hopefully with HTTPS Everywhere installed) and one for HTTPS sites though I'm not sure why anybody would want that. Note that if you delete these entries, then the system-wide defaults, defined in /etc/mailcap, will be used, as provided by the mime-support package.Ĭhanging the x-scheme-handler/http (or x-scheme-handler/https) association directly using: xdg-mime default sktop x-scheme-handler/http Since it puts the following in ~/.config/mimeapps.list: Will also change what the two xdg-mime commands return: $ xdg-mime query default x-scheme-handler/http Using xdg-settings: xdg-settings set default-web-browser sktop The others can be changed as a normal user. The sensible-browser tool (from the sensible-utils package ) will use these to automatically launch the most appropriate web browser depending on the desktop environment. Sudo update-alternatives -config gnome-www-browser The contents of /etc/alternatives/ is system-wide defaults and must therefore be set as root: sudo update-alternatives -config x-www-browser Lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 /etc/alternatives/gnome-www-browser -> /usr/bin/brave-browser-stable* Debian specific tools
$ ls -l /etc/alternatives/gnome-www-browser Lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 29 /etc/alternatives/x-www-browser -> /usr/bin/brave-browser-stable* $ xdg-mime query default x-scheme-handler/https
$ xdg-mime query default x-scheme-handler/http If you are wondering what your default web browser is set to on a Debian-based system, there are several things to look at: $ xdg-settings get default-web-browser The instructions below were written originally drafted by one of our Senior Security engineers.
While you should be able to set Brave as your default browser through the UI (as explained above), Linux users may want to know how to do this via Terminal.
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