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2019-01-08 20:34:04 +0300
Here's the summary of how I solved it - thanks a lot to @scharelc, all the credits go to you!
I queried the current status and found that text/html should be handled by webcat, which was no longer installed
xdg-mime query default text/html
This should give a result like the following, in my case it referred to webcat.
open-url.desktop
Depending on your desired configuration, other values may of course be valid. If the result is not what you expect it to be, you can change it with this command
xdg-mime default open-url.desktop text/html #open-url.desktop is the default value, this will trigger sailfish-browser to open html, you may replace this with your desired config file though. Refer to xdg-mime --manual for further details.
For some reason, ~/.config contained a file named mimeapps.list. This seems to have caused some inconsistencies when setting the new mime handler. The file contained two lines
[Default Applications]
text/html=open-url.desktop
Thus, the query for nemo resulted in
which: no in (/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/home/nemo/bin)
open-url.desktop
After removing ~/.config/mimeapps.list, then applying this command again
xdg-mime default open-url.desktop text/html
the query result is now as expected. http/https links to html documents are now handled by sailfish-browser again.
Mimer did not do the trick for me, it allowed applying changes, but resulted in an additional line in the query response
which: no in (/usr/local/bin: [....]
I did not try Mimer after removing mimeapps.list again, it might have worked then.
Might be ovious, but I often have to tap links in mails several times until the browser opens.
Spark ( 2019-01-08 14:56:26 +0300 )edit