element-hq / element-hq/element-web
Element desktop app registers itself as default handler for mime type text/html
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Description
### Steps to reproduce
1. set mime type handler for text/html to web browser
2. start the Element desktop app
### Outcome
#### What did you expect?
The default mime handler for text/html is left untouched (and points to my web browser)
#### What happened instead?
The mimeapps.list file is altered at each startup of Element desktop app and a line
`text/html=element-desktop.desktop`
is written, overwriting the web browser as handler. Whenever I want to open an html file afterward, Element desktop app unsuccessfully tries to open it instead of the web browser. When I change the mime type handler back to what I want (the web browser), Element desktop overwrites it again on the next startup.
### Operating system
Ubuntu 24.04
### Application version
Version von Element: 1.12.18 Krypto-Version: Rust SDK 0.16.0 (65b585f), Vodozemac 0.9.0
### How did you install the app?
from Ubuntu repo as .deb via apt
### Homeserver
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### Will you send logs?
No
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