Comment 12 for bug 781389

This is a general issue with Chromium and gnome, not this project in particular, this problem existed before.

Chromium makes a "custom setting" rather than the way gnome does it, thus when you set it in System Info, chromium doesn't think it's default, same thing happened in gnome 2. Since Gnome3 no longer supports setting a custom option for default programs, here's where the issues arise.

This bug exists in Fedora 15 as well, it's nothing new. The work around is to make chromium not check if it's default and just change it in System Info.

Either the Gnome team needs to re-add a custom option or chromium needs to fix how it handles making itself default.