Using Chromium instead of Chrome?

[Anthony]

On 05/05/2013 01:54 AM, Suvayu Ali wrote:
> 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

Thank you Suvayu! While I'd already found another way to change the
default association, I'm filing this little trick away for future use.
Thank you!

Anthony