Software Center ignores default browser setting

[Steve Mottram]

Binary package hint: software-center

When I click on a link to the homepage for any application in Software Center in Ubuntu Natty, my default browser setting is ignored and the link is opened in Firefox. I currently have Chrome set as the default browser. Most other applications respect my default browser choice. For example, running gnome-www-browser in a terminal opens Chrome, as expected

If it makes any difference, I am running Unity 2D desktop.

[Robert Roth (evfool)]

I also have Chromium set as default, and software-center opened the website in Chromium. However the code uses the webbrowser python module, which should open the default browser UNLESS there is a BROWSER environment variable set, in which case the browser preference list is overridden by this. I have tried setting the BROWSER variable, and in that case software-center did open the sites in Firefox indeed.

So to check whether you also have a BROWSER variable set, type in the terminal 'echo $BROWSER' (and please post the output here). To clear the environment variable use the terminal command 'unset BROWSER'. Please comment the result after trying these.

[Steve Mottram (steve-d-mottram)]

Thanks for looking into this. I checked in a terminal and $BROWSER is not set at all - echo $BROWSER returns nothing.