[Pkg-chromium-maint] Bug#580582: Chromium keeps prompting about default browser setting

[Jonathan Nieder]

Hi Andrea and Sam,

Andrea De Iacovo wrote:

> Everytime chromium starts it asks the user to become the default browser
> even if it already is.

I don’t have GNOME installed, so I tried reproducing this with

 GNOME_DESKTOP_SESSION_ID=1 chromium-browser

Indeed, the panel at the top appeared:

 Chromium isn't your default browser.     [Set as default] [Don't ask again]

When I chose either, the problem went away and that panel did not appear
next time.  So, two questions:

1. Does choosing “Don't ask again” work as a workaround?

   This modifies the check_default_browser setting in
   ~/.config/chromium/Default/Preferences, so if it doesn’t work, it
   might also be interesting to try modifying that directly.

2. What does your

     ~/.gconf/desktop/gnome/applications/browser/%gconf.xml

   say?

Thanks in advance,
Jonathan