Vscode does not open links in default browser

[arijoon]

Does this issue occur when all extensions are disabled?: Yes

• VS Code Version:

Version: 1.95.1
Commit: 65edc4939843c90c34d61f4ce11704f09d3e5cb6
Date: 2024-10-31T05:14:54.222Z
Electron: 32.2.1
ElectronBuildId: 10427718
Chromium: 128.0.6613.186
Node.js: 20.18.0
V8: 12.8.374.38-electron.0
OS: Linux x64 5.15.0-124-generic snap

• OS Version:

Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description:    Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS
Release:        22.04
Codename:       jammy

Steps to Reproduce:

1. Enter a link in the editor such as http://duckduckgo.com
2. Ctrl+Click the link
3. Wrong browser is used to open the link

My default browser is firefox and if if I enter the command open http://duckduckgo.com in the terminal, it opens it in the correct firefox window, but vscode uses the wrong browser (opens in chrome). This issue is recent and I've noticed it in v1.95.1, previously it worked fine

If you can provide detail on which mime type the links are using I can further inspect the default application for the mime type, text/html is correctly configured on firefox hence not sure where the issue lies. Other applications also open the correct browser and I've only noticed the issue with vscode

[gjsjohnmurray]

Has a value been set for the workbench.externalBrowser setting?

[arijoon]

Has a value been set for the workbench.externalBrowser setting?

No value set. Setting the value to firefox-trunk fixes it for me, but I assume that doesn't cover the case of not respecting the default browser (thanks for the suggestion as I didn't find this option earlier)

[deepak1556]

We call xdg-open http://duckduckgo.com, what happens when you run the command in your terminal ?

[arijoon]

We call xdg-open http://duckduckgo.com, what happens when you run the command in your terminal ?

For me running that command in the terminal runs it in the correct default browser

[ChaosCom]

I'm on 1.96.1 (windows) and experiencing a similar issue with CTRL+clicking links in the TERMINAL section of VSCode.
Via trial-and-error, I determined that CTRL+clicking a link opens the right or the wrong browser for me, depending on how that window was spawned:

1. If I open a window and type "npm run dev" manually, CTRL+clicking a link opens the right browser. (The terminal window gets named "node" in that case)
2. If I click on the triangle symbol in a package.json and choose the same env as in 1), CTRL+clicking a link opens the wrong browser. (The terminal window gets named "JavaScript Debug Terminal")

In the following image, you can see the effect (Brave is my default, but Chrome was opened when I did version 2):

No resetting of "Apps > Default Apps" in Windows remediates this.
Maybe that tidbit of info helps narrow the problem down.

[OverHash]

We call xdg-open http://duckduckgo.com, what happens when you run the command in your terminal ?

I have two instances of Firefox (Snap and Flatpak), and this opens it in the correct instance. However, any links opened by vscode are in the incorrect variant.

Everything I can see across my distribution indicates that it is using the newer Firefox variant, so I'm not sure how to configure vscode to use the correct one.