Obsidian doesn't use default browser on Ubuntu / Snap

For me chrome was always opened instead of my default firefox. I use the Appimage under Ubuntu 24 and tried:

xdg-mime default firefox.desktop x-scheme-handler/http
xdg-mime default firefox.desktop x-scheme-handler/https

but that didnt help, what did help was:

xdg-mime default firefox_firefox.desktop x-scheme-handler/http
xdg-mime default firefox_firefox.desktop x-scheme-handler/https

Hope that helps someone. No sure why the desktop files have this strange naming. Looking into ~/.config/mimeapps.list gave me the idea.

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