Cannot configure chromium to open external links in a new window

[Matthew Gatto]

Binary package hint: chromium-browser

I'm not sure if it was a GNOME or an Ubuntu decision, but removing the ability in the "Preferred Applications" GNOME capplet to use a customized command-line to open HTTP URL links in a preferred web browser in a customized way, _really_ irritates me. I guess this is a two part issue: 1) that Chromium apparently can't be screwed to give users the option to open URLs in new windows, and 2) that GNOME capplet guys zealously remove options with absolutely no regard to advanced users and commonly used advanced options.

I've not yet found a way to work around this either. I even tried setting the preferred http* handlers in gconf-editor to open a shell script that in turn opened the URL with "chromium-browser --new-window $*", but that didn't work either, oddly enough.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: chromium-browser 12.0.742.91~r87961-0ubuntu0.11.04.1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Jun 15 22:55:43 2011
Desktop-Session:
 DESKTOP_SESSION = gnome
 XDG_CONFIG_DIRS = /etc/xdg/xdg-gnome:/etc/xdg
 XDG_DATA_DIRS = /usr/share/gnome:/home/gatto/local/share:/usr/share
Env:
 MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH = None
 LD_LIBRARY_PATH = None
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release amd64 (20091027)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: chromium-browser
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-06-02 (13 days ago)
chromium-default: CHROMIUM_FLAGS="--password-store=detect"

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report, the request is similar to https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=658339, the change is coming from GNOME3 and upstream recommends creating a custom .desktop with the command you want to use

[Colan Schwartz (colan)]

This should be fixed now given the comment over at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-control-center/+bug/708382/comments/51.

[dino99 (9d9)]

Oneiric have reached EOL since a while and that issue is not reproducible with recent version(s)