[Solved]Unable to set default browser

Using XFCE I can set the default browser from settings/Preferred Applications to either google chrome or firefox both of which are installed. I set chrome as preferred and can get online no problem. The setting will stay for sometimes days or maybe a few minutes before the system 'forgets' what preference has been set and reverts to no preference set.
Using thunderbird to open links in emails always opens Firefox despite the default browser being set to chrome. In fact firefox always stays set as default browser under preferences/general and I can have firefox and chrome open at the same time with both claiming they are the default browser. If I set the system preference to firefox then open chrome it detects it is not the default browser and allws me to set it as default, this always seems to set the system preferences to not set so it removes firefox but not not set chrome, if I then open firefox it does not give the message about not being the default but checking in preferences/general it is already set as default.
I seem to be going around in circles for the last few weeks, can someone point me in the right direction?
Last edited by weedfreak (2012-09-23 09:43:11)

Well I had also tried using XFCE Preferred application to set it and that also did not work, there was also an anomaly with the menu entry for Web Browser, it always claimed there was no preference set and I needed to select the session browser from the list.
The link provided was not really a lot of help directly, but it did point out that xdg-open is broken and gave me some directions to search in, eventually I found the ~/.local/applications/mimeapp.list contained a lot of references to firefox that stayed in place even if preferences were changed, they were listed before the chrome entries. I deleted every line with firefox in then when I tried a link from Thunderbird I was asked to choose a browser and the change stuck, the web browser menu link also works correctly.
Not sure if this is really solved or if it is a workaround but I'll mark it solved.

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