I found a link that suggested that apport uses root privileges when reporting and hence does not use the users settings. Instead it uses the update-alternatives settings. Run update-alternatives --get-selections to see what gnome-www-browser and x-www-browser are set to. Then use sudo update-alternatives --config gnome-www-browser and sudo update-alternatives --config x-www-browser to set it to your preferred browser. Mine was set to chromium-browser, possibly an update to this hijacked the alternatives. This fix has worked for me, so this may be an invalid bug.
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