10.04.4 LTS: Cannnot select chromium-browser as default browser in preferred applications

Peter Smout smoutpete at gmail.com
Sat Apr 26 09:10:11 UTC 2014


On 26/04/14 09:11, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Saturday 26 April 2014 04:08:40 Nils Kassube did opine:
>
>> Gene Heskett wrote:
>>> I suspect I may have a perms problem, so where does the file the
>>> prefered applications requester located on 10.04.4 LTS?
>>
>> Run the command
>>
>> sudo update-alternatives --config x-www-browser
>>
>> in a terminal. But I'm not sure if that works for all applications.
>>
>>
>> Nils
>
> Apparently not for a link clicked on in kmail.  Is there any other way?
>
> Thanks Nils.
>
> Cheers, Gene
>
Hi,

Working from memory (it's been a while since I used Kmail) but I seem to 
remember there being a setting in the preferences of Kmail to change the 
browser.

Hope you find it

Pete S




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