diff --git a/pkgs/applications/networking/browsers/chromium/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/networking/browsers/chromium/default.nix
index b3738ed8c1dd..53762744504e 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/networking/browsers/chromium/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/networking/browsers/chromium/default.nix
@@ -207,8 +207,8 @@ in stdenv.mkDerivation {
 
     export XDG_DATA_DIRS=$XDG_ICON_DIRS:$GSETTINGS_SCHEMAS_PATH\''${XDG_DATA_DIRS:+:}\$XDG_DATA_DIRS
 
-    # Mainly for xdg-open but also other xdg-* tools:
-    export PATH="${xdg-utils}/bin\''${PATH:+:}\$PATH"
+    # Mainly for xdg-open but also other xdg-* tools (this is only a fallback; \$PATH is suffixed so that other implementations can be used):
+    export PATH="\$PATH\''${PATH:+:}${xdg-utils}/bin"
 
     .
     w