[Pkg-chromium-maint] Bug#806402: chromium: Chome is not default browser

[carl nikolov]

Package: chromium
Version: 46.0.2490.71-1~deb8u1
Severity: normal

Dear Maintainer,

Please review the email from chromium.org regarding this issue


Comment #8 on issue 552139 by thestig at chromium.org: Chromium is not default
browser
https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=552139

Please report this bug to Debian's chromium package. They changed their
Chromium package name from "chromium-browser" to "chromium". Thus the .desktop
file also changed from "chromium-browser.desktop" to "chromium.desktop".
However, Chromium's source code still refers to chromium-browser.desktop in
chrome/browser/ui/libgtk2ui/gtk2_util.cc and
chrome/browser/shell_integration_linux.cc. Ubuntu and other Linux distros still
name their file chromium-browser.desktop.

Alternatively, Debian's chromium package can automatically set the
CHROME_DESKTOP environment variable to chromium.desktop at run time, if they do
not wish to modify the code.

You can do the same locally. Instead of running: chromium
run: CHROME_DESKTOP=chromium.desktop chromium

Then set the browser as default. After that, it should be the default, and as
long as you have CHROME_DESKTOP=chromium.desktop set, Chromium will not prompt
you about the default browser anymore.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.2
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.16.0-4-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.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           1.0.28-1
ii  libatk1.0-0          2.14.0-1
ii  libc6                2.19-18+deb8u1
ii  libcairo2            1.14.0-2.1
ii  libcups2             1.7.5-11+deb8u1
ii  libdbus-1-3          1.8.20-0+deb8u1
ii  libexpat1            2.1.0-6+deb8u1
ii  libfontconfig1       2.11.0-6.3
ii  libfreetype6         2.5.2-3+deb8u1
ii  libgcc1              1:4.9.2-10
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0   2.31.1-2+deb8u3
ii  libglib2.0-0         2.42.1-1
ii  libgnome-keyring0    3.12.0-1+b1
ii  libgtk2.0-0          2.24.25-3
ii  libjpeg62-turbo      1:1.3.1-12
ii  libnspr4             2:4.10.7-1+deb8u1
ii  libnss3              2:3.17.2-1.1+deb8u2
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  libsrtp0             1.4.5~20130609~dfsg-1.1
ii  libstdc++6           4.9.2-10
ii  libx11-6             2:1.6.2-3
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              2.9.1+dfsg1-5
ii  libxrandr2           2:1.4.2-1+b1
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+2
ii  xdg-utils            1.1.0~rc1+git20111210-7.4

chromium recommends no packages.

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

-- no debconf information