Using Chromium instead of Chrome?

[Suvayu Ali]

On Sat, May 04, 2013 at 04:39:50PM -0500, Anthony wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
> 
> I have both Chrome and Chromium installed on my machine. I have Chromium
> set up as the default browser which usually has worked as expected.
> However, when I click a link in Thunderbird, it opens up in regular
> Chrome instead of Chromium. Any idea how I can change this behavior?
> 
> I've already looked at the "Preferred Applications" section of the
> Settings Manager and it says Chromium is set as the default browser. Do
> I need to change something else?
> 
> Using Fedora 18 with XFCE.

What does the following say?

  $ xdg-mime query default text/html

It should give you the desktop file for Chrome.  Change it to the
desktop file for Chromium with something like the following.

  $ xdg-mime default <chromium_desktop_file> text/html

Hope this helps,

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Suvayu

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