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Xubuntu 11.10 doesn't remember default browser selection

Asked by Don Campbell

I like everything about Xubuntu 11.10 except one annoying bug: it doesn't remember my choice of default browser (Google Chrome) and it doesn't remember my keyring password. At every login, I have to re-select Google Chrome as the default, and re-enter my keyring password.

I know that this issue has been raised before, but I have seen no responses to previous inquiries about this issue. (I could have missed them, of course.) I hope someone -- preferably someone from the development team -- will finally respond and let us know when this bug will be fixed.

Thanks!

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#1

Set a blank keyring password and you won't be hassled for it. Try running:

sudo update-alternatives –config x-www-browser

And set the browser. Might make it stick

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Don Campbell (don-pc-handyman) said : 		#2

Thanks for your reply.

When I run that, I get: error: unknown argument `–config'

Thanks for the suggestion about setting the blank keyring password -- a good workaround, but I am wondering when the team will get around to actually fixing these problems.

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delance (olivier-delance) said : 		#3

It's two dashes:
    sudo update-alternatives --config x-www-browser
I presume Andrew's text editor replaced automatically the two dashes by a large one. When software thinks it's clever than user!

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Stephen Morris (stephenamorris) said : 		#4

Same problem here, but the fix doesn't help. I get:
There is only one alternative in link group x-www-browser: /usr/bin/chromium-browser
Nothing to configure.

and chromium still isn't my default, and the menu entry brings up the same dialog.

I strongly suspect chromium-browser.

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Maarten Jacobs (maarten256) said : 		#5

I actually opened a bug on this a while back...

#902661 Chromium unsets preferred webbrowser (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium-browser/+bug/902661)

It contains a work-around for the problem - use XUbuntu system setting to select your default webbrowser (i.e. Chromium) but do NOT set Chromium to default browser in Chromium itself.

Works for me...

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