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title: 'Ubuntu make ungoolged-chrompim default and wonkiness Also Updated software for this week May 13 2023'
url: 'https://grav.munn.me/my-blog/website-update-for-may-13-2023'
markdown: 'https://grav.munn.me/my-blog/website-update-for-may-13-2023.md'
date: '2025-08-13'
description: "Was an interesting week. My ubuntu went a bit wonky, so I fixed the following: I don't like firefox due to the telemetry and mozilla evilness: How to set the default browser to something other than firefox in ubuntu/Gnome I had this rather vexing problem where firefox was the default instead of ung…"
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Was an interesting week. My ubuntu went a bit wonky, so I fixed the following: I don't like firefox due to the telemetry and mozilla evilness:

# How to set the default browser to something other than firefox in ubuntu/Gnome

I had this rather vexing problem where firefox was the default instead of ungoogled-chromium.

## **Create a new desktop file in ~/.local/share/applications**

The file looks thus and is named `chromium-devel.desktop`:

**\[Desktop Entry\]**
Version=1.0
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Chromium
Exec=/opt/ungoogled-chromium/chrome-wrapper %U
Terminal=false
Icon=/opt/ungoogled-chromium/product\_logo\_48.png
Type=Application
Categories=Application;Network;WebBrowser;
MimeType=x-scheme-handler/unknown;x-scheme-handler/about;x-scheme-handler/https;x-scheme-handler/http;text/html;text/xml;application/xhtml\_xml;

Once this is done, use the following command: `xdg-settings set default-web-browser chromium-devel.desktop`

Then this should fix things.

## Software Updates

[LocalSend](https://ostechnix.com/localsend-opensource-airdrop-alternative/)- Like apple airdrop for linux

[llm](https://github.com/rustformers/llm) Run Inference for LLM on CPU

[ntfy](https://github.com/binwiederhier/ntfy) Push to your phone

[apko](https://github.com/chainguard-dev/apko) Part of a nice suite of software for alpine based mini oci images w/o docker FAST and alpiney!

[upscaly](https://www.linuxlinks.com/machine-learning-linux-upscayl-image-upscaler/2/) gui that upscales crappy images

[santa](https://santa.dev/) evil (in that it runs on the heinous fruit companies rotten apples) binary auth system for said evil fruit company.

[adobe-fonts](https://github.com/adobe-fonts/source-code-pro?ref=itsfoss.com) source code font from adobe.

## New Articles

[Universal Base Images](https://developers.redhat.com/articles/ubi-faq)- Redhat's answer to distroless

## Nifty Hardware

[BOOX Tab Ultra C](https://shop.boox.com/products/tabultrac) Epaper Tablet

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