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The problem has already been stated elsewhere:

8 Posted by u/fractalchemist 4 years ago Slack ignores default browser in Linux

I'm using Kubuntu linux, and prior to the upgrade from 18.10 to 19.04 Slack used my default browser (Chrome). After the update, it only opens links in Firefox. Slack is the only app that does this.

Everything else opens in Chrome. Chrome is set as my default and the same in .config/mimeapps.list

It's driving me nuts, and now it's costing me work as one of the companies I work with has a "claim" button for jobs that I cannot access. There's no "right-click and copy address" in Slack from these buttons.

I saw nothing in slack preferences for setting a specific browser.

For myself, I prefer Firefox over Chromium.

nicholas@mordor:~$ 
nicholas@mordor:~$ strings $(type -p Slack) | grep -E '^[A-Z]+$'

This command just hangs. Run this from the console?

Nicholas Saunders
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Same issue today, I set Google Chrome as the default using the button in Chrome, then came back to set it back to Firefox from the preferences menu after. It did the trick.

Natim
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Changing the default browser in Settings > Apps > Default Apps to Chromium and back to Firefox fixed the issue for me.

Anner Visser
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