[Pkg-chromium-maint] Bug#794215: chromium isn't your default browser

[Ritesh Raj Sarraf]

Package: chromium
Version: 44.0.2403.107-1
Followup-For: Bug #794215

I have run into the same problem. Chromium is not the default browser,
atleast not under GNOME.

Under GNOME's default application list, chromium is not even listed. I
manually ran update-desktop-database, but still it does not show in the
list of Default Browsers.


I have also set gnome-www-browser and x-www-browser to chromium
explicitly. But if I click on a link in evolution, it does not pick
chromium.


rrs at learner:~$ file /etc/alternatives/x-www-browser 
/etc/alternatives/x-www-browser: symbolic link to /usr/bin/chromium
2015-08-06 / 13:38:43 ♒♒♒  ☺    


rrs at learner:~$ sudo update-alternatives --list x-www-browser
[sudo] password for rrs: 
/usr/bin/chromium
/usr/bin/iceweasel
2015-08-06 / 13:38:58 ♒♒♒  ☺    


-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (101, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.1.4+ (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_IN.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_IN.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages chromium depends on:
ii  libasound2           1.0.29-1
ii  libatk1.0-0          2.16.0-2
ii  libc6                2.19-19
ii  libcairo2            1.14.2-2
ii  libcups2             2.0.3-10
ii  libdbus-1-3          1.8.20-1
ii  libexpat1            2.1.0-7
ii  libfontconfig1       2.11.0-6.3
ii  libfreetype6         2.5.2-4
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0   2.31.5-1
ii  libglib2.0-0         2.44.1-1.1
ii  libgnome-keyring0    3.12.0-1+b1
ii  libgtk2.0-0          2.24.28-1
ii  libharfbuzz0b        1.0.1-1
ii  libjpeg62-turbo      1:1.4.1-1
ii  libnspr4             2:4.10.8-2
ii  libnss3              2:3.19.2-1
ii  libpango-1.0-0       1.36.8-3
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0  1.36.8-3
ii  libpci3              1:3.2.1-3
ii  libspeechd2          0.8-7
ii  libspeex1            1.2~rc1.2-1
ii  libsrtp0             1.4.5~20130609~dfsg-1.1
ii  libstdc++6           5.1.1-14
ii  libx11-6             2:1.6.3-1
ii  libxcomposite1       1:0.4.4-1
ii  libxcursor1          1:1.1.14-1+b1
ii  libxdamage1          1:1.1.4-2+b1
ii  libxext6             2:1.3.3-1
ii  libxfixes3           1:5.0.1-2+b2
ii  libxi6               2:1.7.4-1+b2
ii  libxml2              2.9.2+dfsg1-3
ii  libxrandr2           2:1.5.0-1
ii  libxrender1          1:0.9.8-1+b1
ii  libxslt1.1           1.1.28-2+b2
ii  libxss1              1:1.2.2-1
ii  libxtst6             2:1.2.2-1+b1
ii  x11-utils            7.7+3
ii  xdg-utils            1.1.0~rc1+git20111210-7.4

chromium recommends no packages.

Versions of packages chromium suggests:
pn  chromium-l10n  <none>

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