Running Slackware 14.0

Every time I start google-chrome it tells me that chrome is not my default browser. Every time I click the "yes" button. But next time it still asks the same question.

Every time I click a link for help in an application, or to anything which needs to open in a browser, it doesn't work, because it cannot find out what is my default browser. Sometimes it then lets me select the browser I want to use, but it never remembers that selection, but asks me again next time, and every time, for ever and ever...

What (if anything) can I do to fix this annoying problem?

I had a similar problem once before with Firefox.

It seemed to me that the problem was each upgrade resulted in another entry under ~/.local/share/applications for the browser and the system got confused as to which one was right.

So have a look in there and see if you have multiple entries and if you do remove them all, then start chrome and tick the default box and see if it stays when you restart chrome again.

No, I can't see anything related to the browser in there.
Can you show me what such an entry would look like?

pwd
/home/xxxx/.local/share/applications
[applications]$ ls
mimeapps.list userapp-libreoffice-1LP7WW.desktop
mimeinfo.cache userapp-libreoffice-28D4WW.desktop
userapp-geeqie-8MZGWW.desktop userapp-mplayer-92WTWW.desktop
userapp-geeqie-F5DCXW.desktop userapp-mplayer-HLH7UW.desktop
userapp-geeqie-HQ18WW.desktop userapp-mplayer-X989UW.desktop
userapp-kedit-UELFWW.desktop userapp-xmms-RW5IWW.desktop
userapp-leafpad-I711WW.desktop userapp-xpdf-QOV2WW.desktop

please check the link below

http://crunchbang.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=9104

bobsie have a look in that mimeapps.list file it has a section on default applications

I must admit the whole mime type setup is currently horribly broken and I'm currently trying to hunt down how wine has become associated with almost everything on my system

manoj hanse the first command in that link doesn't even exist in Slackware.

There is a line in mimeapps.list like this -

text/html=google-chrome.desktop

That is the only reference to Chrome that I can see. Anyway it seems to have no effect.

Just to clarify - I don't have any browser selected as default.
When I click on the button in Chrome to make it my default browser, what is it supposed to do? Where is this selection stored, and why can Chrome not set it? If I knew how it was supposed to work, I might be able to fix it.

Hi again,

Try this:

Which google-chrome

rpm -ql (output of previous command)| grep config

If you find default file see if it is corrupt.

else

Reinstall chrome.

manoj_hanse: Neither solutions that involve package management for Debian based system nor Red Hat based systems will work in Slackware.

My only pet peeve with Linux

hmm... I'm not sure, but could you check "xdg-settings get default-web-browser" ?

I just dealt with this. The solution is to make sure that the BROWSER environment variable is not set, as it blocks Chromium from setting itself as the default browser. Yes, really.

I found out by running Chromium from a shell. When I clicked "Set as default", the following got printed the console:

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