In addition to this blogpost – whom focuses on chrome but on chromium, I had to run the following command to get rid of the chromium tick:
sudo sed -i 's/chromium.desktop;//' /usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache
Rida Ayed · Nov 2, 2025
Stop google chromium from hijacking MIMEs on arch linux
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In addition to this blogpost – whom focuses on chrome but on chromium, I had to run the following command to get rid of the chromium tick: sudo sed -i 's/chromium.desktop;//' /usr/share/applications/mimeinfo.cache
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