If I go to Settings Manager > Preferred Applications and make Chrome (or chromium-browser; there are entries for both!) the default browser, then logout or reboot and come back, the default browser is null again. The same happens if I click a URL in another application (eg Thunderbird); it says I have no default browser set. If I set it to Chrome, it works for the session, but reverts to unset afterwards. Is there some other place it must be set?
Ubuntu – Why does Chrome not stay as the default browser in Xubuntu 13.04
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Assuming you are using Unity, click on the dash button in the launcher and search for 'System info'. Then, open 'System info' and move to 'Default applications' section. Then, click on the dropdown list next to Web. There, select 'Google Chrome' and it will be selected as the default web browser for your system.
ATTENTION!
The description below applies to Google Chrome. For Chromium instead of ~/.config/google-chrome you have ~/.config/chromium!
In ~/.config/google-chrome/ you will see your profile folders. Let's say, you have beside the default (named Default) an another one called d3vid which you want to make default.
I give you two options:
Rename the Default to something else, and your profile to Default:
mv Default Default_old; mv d3vid Default
Move Default to a better name, and create a symlink to your preferred profile:
mv Default My_cool_profile; ln -s ~/.config/google-chrome/d3vid ~/.config/google-chrome/Default
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Best Answer
The underlying problem is reported here:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/chromium-browser/+bug/902661
Chrome and Chromium do not play nicely in the xfce4 environment, and will corrupt the xfce4 settings for web browser in Preferred Applications. Simply tell Chrom{e,ium} not to ask you any more, then set the default settings through
Settings Manager > Preferred Applications.