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[Olivier Tilloy <olivier.tilloy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

According to upstream bug report, this is fixed.

** Changed in: chromium-browser (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Fix Released

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Title:
  Does not register itself as a handler for http URIs

Status in Chromium Browser:
  Unknown
Status in chromium-browser package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: chromium-browser

  When I set chromium-browser to be my default browser, URLs opened from
  other applications and xdg-open still open in Firefox. The exception
  is that Thunderbird will correctly open the URLs in chromium-browser.

  I originally submitted this as bug 726504
  https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/xdg-utils/+bug/726504 which
  was marked invalid with the comment "This isn't a bug in xdg-utils,
  chrome must register itself as a handler for http URIs." So as the
  same issue shows up with chromium-browser, which is from the repos
  (and to which I subsequently switched anyway because google-chrome-
  unstable was being unstable ;-) ), I'm reporting it again as a
  chromium-browser bug, that probably needs to be pushed upstream to
  google as Chrome itself exhibits the same issue - or at least similar,
  see below about the alternatives symlink.

  Chromium certainly *thinks* it's the default browser, and claims as
  such in its preferences dialogue.

  However:

  rachel@mab:~$ ls -l /etc/alternatives/x-www-browser 
  lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 22 2011-02-20 18:37 /etc/alternatives/x-www-browser -> /usr/bin/google-chrome

  That's not chromium-browser's binary, but Google Chrome's
  (specifically google-chrome-unstable in this case) so *that* changed
  this symlink but chromium-browser, set as default since, didn't. But
  Thunderbird *still* correctly opens its urls in chromium-browser and
  everything else still opens their urls in firefox.

  So I don't know what's going on there.

  Sorry I don't still have a Maverick machine around, so I can't
  confirm, but my memory is that I didn't have this problem on Maverick.

  But basically what it looks like is that the comment on the xdg-utils
  bug implies that there is a set mechanism for "registering" as a
  default browser that google chrome and chromium aren't using.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
  Package: chromium-browser 9.0.597.107~r75357-0ubuntu1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-5.32-generic 2.6.38-rc6
  Uname: Linux 2.6.38-5-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
  Architecture: amd64
  Date: Sat Mar  5 10:22:25 2011
  InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100429)
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=en_GB:en
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: chromium-browser
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-02-26 (6 days ago)
  chromium-default: CHROMIUM_FLAGS=""

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