Comment 5 for bug 781389

I had a similar issue and removing Chromium's config directory solved
it for me. Try to temporarily (re)move it:

mv ~/.config/chromium ~/.config/chromium.bak

Now, try to start Chromium and see if you can set it as default. If it
works for you, then remove chromium.bak from ~/.config. You might want
to make sure you have everything synced first.

2011/5/12 Davide Alberelli <email address hidden>:
> Ooook, I'm sorry!
> It seems to me that you solved :)
>
> Can you please post a screenshot of the default applications window?
>
> ** Changed in: ugr-meta
>       Status: Invalid => New
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> Title:
>  unable to set default browser
>
> Status in Ubuntu Gnome Remix Metapackages:
>  New
>
> Bug description:
>  I installed Chromium browser, because I like it much better than Firefox. The only problem is that each time I start Chromium, it wants to set itself as default browser. If I click to set, the bar disappears, but at the next start it comes up again.
>  In Preferences, there is a button saying "Make Chromium My Default Browser". If I click on it, it just stays active and Firefox stays as the default.
>  What to do now?
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