[GNOME Shell] Switch default browser for "overview" search

Have anyone been able to do this?
Using Chromium as my default browser, entering a search string in the Overview Panel still only grants the option of searching with Epiphany. As far as I'm able to tell it seems defaulting to Epiphany is hardcoded into GNOME Shell, but please tell me I'm wrong...
Cheers,
Kristian

Does that for me too. Very strange that GNOME Shell does not respect the GNOME default application web browser setting?

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