A little more insight into this follows as I use Chrome and have the same issue.
Upon reading this, I started poking around the webbrowser module and it appears that if the GNOME_DESKTOP_SESSION_ID environment variable is set, the `gnome-open' command is set as the default "browser" command. I confirmed this with the following: --------------------------------------------------- $ python Python 2.7.1+ (r271:86832, Apr 11 2011, 18:05:24) [GCC 4.5.2] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import webbrowser >>> webbrowser.get().name 'gnome-open' >>> --------------------------------------------------- Sure enough, if you run on the command-line: --------------------------------------------------- $ gnome-open 'http://google.com' --------------------------------------------------- That will try to open firefox, which is apparently the default "gnome" browser (I don't know much about `gnome-open' and where it's getting firefox from). As I was going through the source for the webbrowser module, I did find that you can set a "BROWSER" environment variable to the path to your browser and it will use that instead. Hope this helps. Jay -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/760143 Title: clicking a link from gwibber launches firefox instead of the default browser -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
