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I have google-chrome set as my default web browser in Ubuntu and gnome applications. However, when using konsole, all links open in konqueror, and not google-chrome!



I've tried setting the default browser with: sudo update-alternatives --config 'x-www-browser'



This works for opening links in gnome-terminal, and other gnome programs... but not kde ones like konsole. Also, there appears to be no kcontrol program for accessing the kde settings.



Does anyone know a way to set the kde setting for this while still using gnome?



EDIT: From what I can tell, I've got all the related settings configured that I can think of...



grep 'chrome' ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list

x-scheme-handler/http=google-chrome.desktop;firefox.desktop;
x-scheme-handler/https=google-chrome.desktop;firefox.desktop;
x-scheme-handler/http=google-chrome.desktop
x-scheme-handler/https=google-chrome.desktop
x-scheme-handler/chrome=firefox.desktop
text/html=google-chrome.desktop
application/x-extension-htm=google-chrome.desktop;firefox.desktop;
application/x-extension-html=google-chrome.desktop;firefox.desktop;
application/x-extension-shtml=google-chrome.desktop;firefox.desktop;
application/xhtml+xml=google-chrome.desktop;firefox.desktop;
application/x-extension-xhtml=google-chrome.desktop;firefox.desktop;
application/x-extension-xht=google-chrome.desktop;firefox.desktop;
x-scheme-handler/about=google-chrome.desktop
x-scheme-handler/unknown=google-chrome.desktop

grep 'chrome' /usr/share/applications/defaults.list

text/html=firefox.desktop;google-chrome.desktop
text/xml=firefox.desktop;google-chrome.desktop
application/xhtml_xml=google-chrome.desktop
x-scheme-handler/http=firefox.desktop;google-chrome.desktop
x-scheme-handler/https=firefox.desktop;google-chrome.desktop
x-scheme-handler/ftp=google-chrome.desktop


And there are no references to konqueror:



grep -i 'konqueror' /usr/share/applications/defaults.list
grep -i 'konqueror' ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list
grep -i 'kon' /usr/share/applications/defaults.list
grep -i 'kon' ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list

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I ran into this problem running konsole in Ubuntu/Unity. When everything else failed, I edited ~/.kde/share/config/kdeglobals:



[General]
BrowserApplication[$e]=!google-chrome


Logout, login -- bingo!


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