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Another discussion of this issue: http://askubuntu.com/a/628111/22414

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Title:
  Chromium unsets preferred webbrowser

Status in chromium-browser package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  I'm running XUbuntu 11.10 (actually Ubuntu 11.10 with the xubuntu
  packages installed on top).

  When I select Chromium to be my preferred web browser from
  settings->setting manager->preferred application, Chromium will be
  launched when I select Web Browser from the main pull-down menu.

  However, when Chromium starts, it produces a message stating "Chromium
  is not your default browser" (or words of that nature). When I select
  "yes", and then reopen preferred applications, Chromium is no longer
  selected as the default web browser.

  It would seem that Chromium doesn't understand how to interpret the
  default settings in xfce4 - or muddles them up when it tries to make
  itself the default browser.

  The work-around is easy - tell Chromium not to ask anymore, and don't
  allow it to set itself as the default browser (use preferred
  applications instead to select the preferred browser).

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
  Package: chromium-browser 15.0.874.106~r107270-0ubuntu0.11.10.1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-13.22-generic 3.0.6
  Uname: Linux 3.0.0-13-generic i686
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu4
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Sat Dec 10 19:44:50 2011
  Desktop-Session:
   DESKTOP_SESSION = xubuntu
   XDG_CONFIG_DIRS = /etc/xdg/xdg-xubuntu:/etc/xdg:/etc/xdg
   XDG_DATA_DIRS = /usr/share/xubuntu:/usr/local/share/:/usr/share/:/usr/share
  Env:
   MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH = None
   LD_LIBRARY_PATH = None
  ExecutablePath: /usr/lib/chromium-browser/chromium-browser
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release i386 (20110427.1)
  ProcEnviron:
   
  SourcePackage: chromium-browser
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-12-03 (7 days ago)
  chromium-default: CHROMIUM_FLAGS=""

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