How do I change the browser that gnome terminal opens links with?

Question

I'd like gnome-terminal to open links with the Chrome browser, but it insists on opening them with Firefox.

I've followed both pieces of advice found here without any success:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/gnome-terminal-default-browser-332934/

My OS is Ubuntu 10.04.

Solution 1

You should choose the default browser: Chromium Web Browser in your case.

Go to System --> Administration --> Preferred Applications

Solution 2

I had the same problem in Ubuntu 13.04, couldn't find an answer online (this question is the closest I found), and eventually fixed the problem by running:

gnome-control-center info

and using the 'default applications' in there to select my browser.

Solution 3

Control centers are very window manager specific. In newer gnome based releases gio can handle the mime handler settings, to set a handler for URLs use this command for instance:

gio mime x-scheme-handler/http chromium-browser.desktop

Comments

[Admin]

Are you sure you followed the last piece of advice there? Most gnome-applications abide to the default browser set there...

[Admin]

If you have gnome. The last piece should work.

[Admin]

Following Menu > System > Preferences > Internet does not work even after your reloaded gnome-terminal?

[Sam Watkins]

Works for me (but used mate-control-center in Mint). When I followed the other answer, it was already set to chrome. Weird and annoying to have two different preferred apps settings pages :( smells like a bug to me

[Dave Foster]

Same panel exists in unity-control-center, under the "Defaults" item.