Comment 33 for bug 709216

I had this problem with Firefox in Natty as well (after upgrading from 10.10). After reading this bug and looking at what gets set in gconf when I change the browser to Chrome, I noticed that the setting for Chrome had %U (note the capital U) after the command in gconf. And when I looked at the Properties for Chrome in the Menu editor, I noticed that the Command also has the %U at the end of it. Looking at Firefox in the menu editor showed that the Command didn't have the %U. So I added the %U to the end of the Command line for Firefox in my menu and then changed my default browser to Chrome and then back to Firefox, and now links launch in Firefox like expected.

(Attempting to manually edit the gconf lines like suggested earlier in this bug didn't work, it looks like neither %u or %s work if changed directly in gconf, I didn't check anything else. But with previous posts mentioning that things aren't reading from gconf anymore, maybe it's just that Pidgin doesn't read gconf, and it's getting it's setting from somewhere else that was also incorrect.)