Howto make google chrome the default browser

Problem:
I installed google-chrome but somehow it would not set itself as the default browser (example: clicking a link in terminator opened firefox/iceweasel).

After a long search here on the forums I found the solution(s) to my problem:

I hope this works for others to..

Howto:

Find out where chrome is installed (in my case it is /usr/bin/google-chrome) but firefox seems to be in /opt/firefox/firefox

Check if chrome is known as your default browser.

Open a terminal:

sudo update-alternatives --config x-www-browser

This will show you this example:

Change it to default by pressing the right number. In this example you press 2

Note:
If Chrome doesnt show up then you can add it:

sudo update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/x-www-browser \x-www-browser /usr/bin/google-chrome 150

Or as an alternative you could also use this option (http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/post/54138/#p54138e):

sudo ln -s /etc/alternatives/x-www-browser /usr/bin/google-chrome

Now check again if you see it in the list.

To be sure it went right you can type:

sudo update-alternatives --display x-www-browser

It will show this:

Now we have this right and x-www-browser uses your chrome a default browser..

But if you where unlucky like me, Terminator still opens Firefox as browser..

Now we can fix that with changing this (found here: http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/post/73904/#p73904):

Type:

 sudo gedit .gconf/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/http/%gconf.xml
 
 and 
 
 sudo gedit .gconf/desktop/gnome/url-handlers/https/%gconf.xml

In my case both showed:

So I changed it too:

Did a reboot and now when I click a link in terminator chrome opens the link.

Now i would not be surprised if there are more ways or still other issues you need to fix but this worked for me.

This is my first howto ever. Feel free to join in to explain better, to correct me or suggest other methodes

Type and read you later
Pieter (XPieter on #crunchbang)

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Last edited by Pieter (2010-08-16 10:51:42)