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[rtimai <1509139@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Chad, I don't agree that "the XDG utilities aren't written very well."
The problem is that there's little agreement between both applications
and platforms on how defaults are detected, and the script is doing its
best to accommodate all the scenarios that cause issues. I believe I
have tried EVERY fix (short of installing testing versions from PPAs of
XDG-utils and Chromium) and Chromium STILL doesn't know that it's the
default browser.

~$  apt-cache policy xdg-utils; grep http ~/.config/mimeapps.list ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list
xdg-utils:
  Installed: 1.1.0~rc1+git20111210-7.4
  Candidate: 1.1.0~rc1+git20111210-7.4
  Version table:
 *** 1.1.0~rc1+git20111210-7.4 0
        500 http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/ jessie/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
/home/USERNAME/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list:x-scheme-handler/http=chromium.desktop
/home/USERNAME/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list:x-scheme-handler/https=chromium.desktop

~$  uname -a
Linux debian 3.16.0-4-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 3.16.43-2 (2017-04-30) x86_64 GNU/Linux

~$  lsb_release -d
Description:	Debian GNU/Linux 8.8 (jessie)

~$   apt-cache policy chromium
chromium:
  Installed: 57.0.2987.98-1~deb8u1
  Candidate: 57.0.2987.98-1~deb8u1
  Version table:
 *** 57.0.2987.98-1~deb8u1 0
        500 http://httpredir.debian.org/debian/ jessie/main amd64 Packages
        500 http://security.debian.org/ jessie/updates/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

/usr/bin/xdg-settings:
198#       command="`grep -E "^Exec(\[[^]=]*])?=" "$file" | cut -d= -f 2- | first_word`"
199        command="`grep -E "^Exec(\[[^]=]*])?=" "$file" | cut -d= -f 2- | first_word | head -n 1`"
200#       command="`grep -E "^Exec(\[[^]=]*])?=" "$file" | cut -d= -f 2- | sed -e 's/ .*$//' | head -n 1`"

Each line uncommented in turn with no change in chrome://settings:
"Chromium is not currently your default browser."

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1509139

Title:
  Shows "Chromium isn't your default browser" since 15.10.

Status in Chromium Browser:
  New
Status in Xdg-utils:
  Confirmed
Status in chromium-browser package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress
Status in google-chrome package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in google-chrome-beta package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in xdg-utils package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Since the 15.10.  upgrade Chromium shows on every launch "Chromium
  isn't your default browser", even when i select "Set as default" or
  "Don't ask again".

  Chromium is set as default application for "Web" at System Settings ->
  Details -> Default Applications.

  Version 45.0.2454.101 Ubuntu 15.10 (64-bit)

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