Curious. If you run gnome-default-applications-properties, what does it say your default browser is? xdg-open doesn't require firefox. It simply calls gnome-open under gnome, which then opens the appropriate url handler.
Curious. If you run gnome-default- applications- properties, what does it say your default browser is? xdg-open doesn't require firefox. It simply calls gnome-open under gnome, which then opens the appropriate url handler.