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I have made a desktop shortcut to a YouTube playlist, and it has a .desktop extension. How do I configure it so that it opens up with Mozilla Firefox, and not Google Chrome, which is my default browser?

(Reason being that YouTube freezes occasionally on chrome, running Ubuntu 18.04)

I do not want to change my default browser, as I still prefer Chrome.

Here are the contents of the file:

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Link to 1. Introduction to Algorithms - YouTube
Type=Link
URL=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IAPZzGSbME&feature=youtu.be
Icon=text-html

I have tried right click and open with Firefox, but that doesn't stay permanently.

******TEMPORARY WORKAROUND******

  • change the firefox homepage to the youtube playlist

  • change the firefox icon to youtube icon (downloaded from google)

  • add firefox to favorites

user3150552
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Switch it to an Application launcher and specify Firefox.

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Link to 1. Introduction to Algorithms - YouTube
Type=Application
Exec=firefox https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IAPZzGSbME
Icon=text-html

You will also need to mark it as executable. Some instructions are here.

wjandrea
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