How to set which application is launched by xdg-open?

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Published on 2010-12-21T19:12:42Z Indexed on 2012/11/27 11:22 UTC
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I have run update-alternatives as well as gnome preffered apps selection thing. And all point to have chromium browser as default. Yet when I run xdg-open http://askubuntu.com firefox is launched! Similarly emacs and bzr also launch stuff in firefox instead of chromium.

Are there any additional settings which affect xdg-open functionality?

Something is definatly broken:

UPDATE
I have purged firefox:
update-alternatives - uses chromium browser
sensible-browser - opens chromium browser
xdg-open & gnome-open - opens using google-chrome which kindly tells me "it's not default browser"

!!!!

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