doesn't respect default browser

Could you run the following commands in a terminal and send the output:

pgrep -l -x -u $(id -u)
gconftool --get /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http/command

This is how apport guesses which web browser to use.

Sorry, that should have been:

pgrep -l -x -u $(id -u) "gnome-panel|gconfd-2"
gconftool --get /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http/command

greg@greg-natty:~$ pgrep -l -x -u $(id -u) "gnome-panel|gconfd-2"
1425 gconfd-2

greg@greg-natty:~$ gconftool --get /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http/command
/usr/bin/chromium-browser %s

Thanks. Can you confirm that you can still reproduce this problem in the same environment where you ran those commands? According to the code, it should be working.

Also, does "gnome-open http://www.ubuntu.com/" open Chromium or Firefox for you?

I can still reproduce this problem. The gnome-open command opens Firefox.

Thank you for looking at this for me.

if gnome-open does the wrong thing, I don't think there is a bug in apport. Let's look at this in the context of libgnome.

I can confirm this behavior; it's been the case for several weeks at least on natty and is still occurring as of 2011-03-11.

The gconf key seems to be getting set properly. On my system (allegedly configured to use Chromium as the default browser):

fader@cavil:~$ gconftool --get /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http/command
/usr/bin/chromium-browser %s

If I click a URL or gnome-open one, I get Firefox. Interestingly, if I go to the Firefox preferences, it detects that it is not the default browser. Setting it as the default causes the gconf key to be updated:

fader@cavil:~$ gconftool --get /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http/command
firefox %s

(As expected, URLs continue to open in Firefox at this point.)

Chrome recognizes that it is no longer the default browser and is happy to change the gconf key back for me:

fader@cavil:~$ gconftool --get /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http/command
/usr/bin/chromium-browser %s

However, URLs are still opened by Firefox at this point.

I poked around in gconf a bit and just got more confused.

fader@cavil:~$ gconftool --get /desktop/gnome/applications/browser/exec
/usr/bin/chromium-browser

fader@cavil:~$ gconftool --get /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/ftp/command
firefox %s

(Admittedly, the FTP handler is likely to be unrelated to this directly. But it is interesting.)

Aha! The setting is correctly controlled by gnome-default-applications-properties. Running this (or launching 'Preferred Applications' from a menu/Unity) contains a "Web Browser" setting that was set to Firefox. Changing this to Chromium did the right thing.

I'm not at all sure what gnome-default-applications-properties is setting that the browsers aren't, but that seems to be the solution.

the gconf key is deprecated, GNOME uses the mimetypes now for the web browser and email client, there is a similar bug on xdg-open, bug #670128, gnome-open uses gio and should do the right thing though

the default browser should by setting the x-scheme-handler types in the .local directory

@Greg Auger - can you check your browser setting in Preferred Applications?

Yes in Preferred Applications Firefox was set as default. Changing it to Chromium made Apport work.

same problem ;(