Google Earth / Google Maps Curiosity

[doctormann]

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

[aarn]

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

[RichCor]

'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

[doctormann]

 

'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