Tomboy web sync - default browser?

Hello All,
I'm trying to get tomboy working with synchronization. I've used this successfully in the past (multiple times), but I'm new to Arch Linux, so ran into a road block. Basically when I try to use the Tomboy Web Sync, tomboy asks that I set up the default browser so that it can do oauth authentication. I've tried a couple of different ways to set the default browser using gconf-editor, and gconftool-2, but nothing seems to work.
Anyone figured this out?
Thanks,
Bobby

Nevermind, I think I just had to log out and log in fully.. looks like the $BROWSER environment variable is the way to go.
export BROWSER=/usr/bin/firefox
place in .bashrc, and you should be good to go.

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