doctormann Posted July 25, 2014 Share Posted July 25, 2014 Hi Guys. I'm running Mint 17 Cinnamon (32-bit) on my Lenovo Z370 notebook PC. I've just upgraded from Mint 13 - clean install. Everything runs smoothly and I don't have any problems. However, there is one thing that I'm curious about, I installed the Debian package for Google Earth from the Mint software repository and it seems to work flawlessly. However, if I invoke 'View in Google Maps' from within GE, for some reason it opens in Firefox and not in Chrome. Firefox is installed on the system but is not my default browser - Chrome is! GM works OK, I'm just curious as to why this is happening. There may be a setting somewhere but I haven't found one so far. Any ideas? DM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aarn Posted August 3, 2014 Share Posted August 3, 2014 I just installed google earth for chrome on Lubuntu 14.04.1. No issues - it didn't want to start up FFox. Have you set preferred browser to chrome? AA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichCor Posted August 3, 2014 Share Posted August 3, 2014 (edited) 'View in Google Maps' from within GE, for some reason it opens in Firefox and not in Chrome. As a test, I loaded up a similar configuration in a VirtualBox and had the same issue. This one took a while to research gksu gedit /etc/environment added new line: BROWSER=/usr/bin/google-chrome <-- or whatever name your browser shortcut is listed as ...or it could be in... gconf-editor /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/ ...http ...https The first one did it for me on my test system. research link: askubuntu.com Edited August 3, 2014 by RichCor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doctormann Posted August 4, 2014 Author Share Posted August 4, 2014 'View in Google Maps' from within GE, for some reason it opens in Firefox and not in Chrome. As a test, I loaded up a similar configuration in a VirtualBox and had the same issue. This one took a while to research gksu gedit /etc/environment added new line: BROWSER=/usr/bin/google-chrome <-- or whatever name your browser shortcut is listed as ...or it could be in... gconf-editor /desktop/gnome/url-handlers/ ...http ...https The first one did it for me on my test system. research link: askubuntu.com OK, your first suggestion has worked - thanks for that. Chrome was already set as the default browser by the way but it seems that Mint needs to be told twice! I'll take a look at the askubuntu.com link to see if I can understand why. DM 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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