Warning: Unable to detect a web browser to launch

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sagitter
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Warning: Unable to detect a web browser to launch

Post by sagitter » Mon Sep 08, 2025 6:49 pm

Hi all.

How i can fix these warnings?

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Warning:  Unable to detect a web browser to launch "...."
They appear when try to reach the links from Help menu

CVH
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Re: Warning: Unable to detect a web browser to launch

Post by CVH » Tue Sep 09, 2025 2:05 am

Hi,

Please specify your QCAD version and OS.
The issue may already been resolved in a newer release.

Perhaps you can specify which default browser you use.
What is the application that opens html files stored on your system?

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CVH

sagitter
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Re: Warning: Unable to detect a web browser to launch

Post by sagitter » Tue Sep 09, 2025 10:33 am

It's qcad-3.32.4.0 compiled on Fedora 42

Default browser is Icecat

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$ xdg-mime query default text/html
icecat.desktop
$ cat /usr/share/applications/icecat.desktop | grep Mime
MimeType=text/html;text/xml;application/xhtml+xml;application/xml;application/rss+xml;application/rdf+xml;image/gif;image/jpeg;image/png;x-scheme-handler/http;x-scheme-handler/https;x-scheme-handler/ftp;x-scheme-handler/chrome;video/webm;application/x-xpinstall;
I also tried to change it to firefox

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