gnome-terminal ignores default browser

[Charlie Schluting ☃]

Binary package hint: gnome-terminal

Since upgrading to natty (running unity), linked opened in gnome-terminal open in Firefox, regardless of my default browser being chrome.

gnome-terminal 2.32.1-0ubuntu3

[Gasol Wu (gasol-wu)]

go to System Settings (Control Center), you will see Common Tasks in left panel, click "Set Preferred Applications" and change Web Browser to Google Chrome, it works to me.

related link: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=487862

[Gasol Wu (gasol-wu)]

Preferred Applications Window.

[Jeremy Bícha (jbicha)]

I can't confirm on Ubuntu 11.04 or 11.10 so I'm closing this bug. Are you sure your default web browser is Chrome?

[jetxee (jetxee)]

I confirm this bug on Ubuntu Lucid 10.04, `gnome-terminal-2.30.2-0ubuntu`. I was switching back from Chromium to Firefox, but Gnome Terminal kept opening Chromium windows. It affects also Pidgin and some other Gnome applications.

- System -> Preferences -> Preferred Applications have no effect
- In gconf-editor, all /desktop/gnome/url-handlers point to the new browser, no effect
- `x-www-browser` and `gnome-www-browser` point to the new brower, no effect

This Debian bug is relevant and offers a workaround: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=612985

To workaround the problem I added these lines to ~/.local/share/applications/defaults.list:

x-scheme-handler/http=firefox.desktop
x-scheme-handler/https=firefox.desktop

[Seppo Enarvi (senarvi)]

I thought I have the same bug after upgrading to Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, but looks like the terminal link has just been updated to point to Konsole. Make sure you're actually running gnome-terminal and not konsole!