Ubuntu
chromium-browser package

  1. Bug #776393
  2. Comment #11

Comment 11 for bug 776393

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michael perigard (overprescribed) wrote :

Setting it in Preferred Applications does *not* work for me. Upon opening Preferred Applications again, Firefox is again the default browser.

this error appears when running gnome-default-applications-properties, upon setting the default browser to chromium:

(gnome-default-applications-properties:28940): default-applications-properties-WARNING **: Error setting default browser: Failed to create file '/home/michael/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list.GGETVV': Permission denied

and for some reason, ~/.local/share/applications and ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list are both owned by root? seems like this may be an unrelated bug... changing ownership of the directory and file seems to solve the issue.