Default web browser in Arch Linux: how to change it!

Hello everybody! Some days ago I had some problems with my web browser Opera. I still need to understand why it crashes constantly. However, I decided to use temporarily Firefox web browser. All good, but my PgAdmin4 runs directly the default one!

My workaround is easy: change the default web browser in my Arch Linux machine. How to do that? Using xdg-settings.

First of all, the solution! Directly from the wiki page:

xdg-settings set default-web-browser firefox.desktop

More on xdg-settings, probably helpful to everyone:

• if we want to know the current default web browser?
  

  [[email protected] ~]$ xdg-settings get default-web-browser
  opera.desktop
• how to know which are the other possible setup using xdg-settings?
  

  [[email protected] ~]$ xdg-settings --list
  Known properties:
    default-url-scheme-handler    Default handler for URL scheme
    default-web-browser           Default web browser

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