Comment 4 for bug 729563

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Rachel Greenham (rachel-strangenoises) wrote : Re: [Bug 729563] Re: Does not register itself as a handler for http URIs

On 10/03/11 20:10, Rachel Greenham wrote:
> Have installed Maverick on a machine (not only to test this, but
> remembered to do so). I can confirm this problem does not arise on
> Maverick; Chrome/Chromium being set as the default browser works just
> fine. So this is definitely a bug in Natty's xdg-utils. Have objected to
> my original bug's being marked invalid. FWIW. :-)
>
Andreas Moog responded in the other bug (linked above), it seems
relevant here:

> Chrome needs to be updated to follow freedesktop.org's spec, see
> http://standards.freedesktop.org/shared-mime-info-spec/shared-mime-info-
> spec-latest.html#id2869854. So you are right, it's not invalid, it is a
> bug in chrome, which we don't ship in ubuntu (we have chromium).
>