Coupled with my previous post, here's a quick and dirty workaround to make gwibber use your browser of choice until this is fixed. It just amounts to making a shell script wrapper and launching that.
First, create your shell script (you can put this script wherever you want, just remember the path): --------------------------------------------------- $ vim ~/gwibber-launcher.sh --------------------------------------------------- Put this in it: --------------------------------------------------- #!/bin/bash export BROWSER="/opt/google/chrome/google-chrome" gwibber --------------------------------------------------- Substitute your browser-of-choice path in the BROWSER="" part. Now, just set the permissions on your shell script so you can execute it: --------------------------------------------------- $ chmod 755 ~/gwibber-launcher.sh --------------------------------------------------- The last thing to do is change the menu item so that it uses "gwibber- launcher.sh" instead of just "gwibber". I'm not sure how to do this in the new Unity menu system, but if you are running "Ubuntu classic", like I am, just do the following: --------------------------------------------------- $ alacarte --------------------------------------------------- That opens up the menu editor (you can also right-click on "Applications" in the upper left and select "Edit Menus"). 1. Click on "Internet" in the left hand pane 2. Right-click on "Gwibber in the right hand pane and select "Properties" 3. In the box labeled "Command", change it from "gwibber" to /home/<username>/gwibber-launcher.sh Obviously, sub in your username for <username> in step 3 (or the path to wherever you put the script). Now, if you use that menu item to launch gwibber and click on a link, it should open in Chrome (or whatever browser you set up in the shell script). This hack should help until this is fixed. 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
