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The problem has already been stated elsewhere:

8 Posted by u/fractalchemist 4 years ago Slack ignores default browser in Linux

I'm using Kubuntu linux, and prior to the upgrade from 18.10 to 19.04 Slack used my default browser (Chrome). After the update, it only opens links in Firefox. Slack is the only app that does this.

Everything else opens in Chrome. Chrome is set as my default and the same in .config/mimeapps.list

It's driving me nuts, and now it's costing me work as one of the companies I work with has a "claim" button for jobs that I cannot access. There's no "right-click and copy address" in Slack from these buttons.

I saw nothing in slack preferences for setting a specific browser.

For myself, I prefer Firefox over Chromium.

nicholas@mordor:~$ 
nicholas@mordor:~$ strings $(type -p Slack) | grep -E '^[A-Z]+$'

This command just hangs. Run this from the console?

Nicholas Saunders
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    See if your Slack executable uses environment variables with strings $(type -p Slack) | grep -E '^[A-Z]+$' or if it uses hard-coded paths with strings $(type -p Slack) | grep -E '^/[a-z]+/'. Please [edit] your question to add whatever information you get. Don't use Add Comment, or you'll classify yourself as "Does Not Follow Instructions (DNFI)", and I'll ignore you. I view DNFIs as unhelpable. – waltinator May 08 '23 at 20:03
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    What is xdg-settings get default-web-browser? – nteodosio May 24 '23 at 15:12

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