Ubuntu
chromium-browser package

  1. Bug #1823917
  2. Comment #4

Comment 4 for bug 1823917

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Olivier Tilloy (osomon) wrote :

Not sure about opera, but IIRC firefox doesn't use xdg-settings to set itself as the default browser.

chromium-browser relies on xdg-settings, which errors out when $BROWSER is set, and that's apparently intentional. So the bug here seems to be that $BROWSER is set in the first place. What purpose does that variable fulfill? As pointed out by Walter, it's not part of the UNIX standard.