[00:26] <mmikowski> mparillo: This may be old hat, but the path to the browser is set in the first directory from $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS with a kdeglobals file.  The setting is [ General ] BrowserApplication=xxx.desktop where xxx is your browser.
[00:28] <mmikowski> mparillo: If that looks like it should, then you might test on a Neon liveUSB session and see if you get the same behavior there. $0.02.
[09:23] <mparillo> Thank you. I am on Arch on this machine, which works and for it, I see it expand and when I try to cd to it I get: bash: cd: /home/mparillo/.config/kdedefaults:/etc/xdg: No such file or directory
[09:24] <mparillo> I will test on Kubuntu when I can put this aside again.
[09:57] <mparillo> Continuing on Kubuntu. There I can echo $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS and the first directory in the colon-separated list is: /home/mparillo/.config/kdedefaults As you would have expected, I can see a file kdeglobals, but the only things there relate to Breeze. And the only entry under [General] is ColorScheme=BreezeLight which is even more interesting because in System Settings > Appearance > Global Theme I have set to Breeze Twilight.
[10:00] <mparillo> The last entry in the $XDG_CONFIG_DIRS variable is /usr/share/kubuntu-default-settings/kf5-settings and there in kdeglobals under [General] I see:  BrowserApplication=firefox_firefox.desktop
[10:15] <mparillo> Note that removing the offending line from  /usr/share/kubuntu-default-settings/kf5-settings requires sudo.
[10:15] <mparillo> I wonder if future upgrades to KDE Frameworks will over-write  /usr/share/kubuntu-default-settings/kf5-settings
[12:25] <RikMills> mparillo: no as that is from kubuntu-settings
[13:00] <BluesKaj> Hi all