Ability to select default browser for links

[Andrew-Cha]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. When I open links it always opens Google Chrome. I use Firefox.

Describe the solution you'd like I'd like an option / an explanation of how to pick a default browser for my links.

Describe alternatives you've considered I have tried looking through the Issues on GitHub / the settings in the app and nothing is seemingly respecting the default browser of my OS (Ubuntu 24)

[IsmaelMartinez]

Hi,

You can use the defaultURLHandler config option to define what browser to use.

See https://github.com/IsmaelMartinez/teams-for-linux/tree/develop/app/config

Hope helps,

[cw-dimedis]

@IsmaelMartinez Can you actually confirm this works when you have teams-for-linux installed via Snap?

I added this config.json:

{
        "defaultURLHandler": "firefox"
}

But when I click on a link I get this error:

openInBrowserErrorHandler spawn firefox ENOENT

I also tried with an absolute path and with a wrapper script, but the process does not seem to be able to see the firefox executable.

openInBrowserErrorHandler Command failed: /home/cw/bin/open-firefox.sh https://martinfowler.com
/home/cw/bin/open-firefox.sh: line 2: /usr/bin/firefox: No such file or directory

[IsmaelMartinez]

That might not work with snap due to content isolation. I would recommend using deb instead to verify if that is the case.

[Andrew-Cha]

Thanks for the clarification.

[cw-dimedis]

Yay! I can confirm it works when I install the app via apt.

I had to go the extra step to give "chrome-sandbox" the -s flag to get it running, though.

Many thanks!