Note, in all cases below, Firefox is default browser:

If Google Chrome is not installed, boincmgr opens default browser and successfully displays appropriate web page.

If no browsers are open but Chrome is installed, boincmgr opens Chrome, but the content is not displayed even though the address shows in Chrome's address bar.

If Chrome is already open, but not Firefox, a new tab is opened, the URL is displayed and content is loaded into tab.

If Both Firefox and Chrome are open, boincmgr selects Chrome to open the URL and successfully display the content.

Seems to me that boincmgr should always use system default web browser, no matter how many web browsers are installed or opened, or it should be selectable as an option in boincmgr.

I need Chrome installed because Adobe Flash is no longer updated for Firefox on x64 Linux, but it is for Chrome and I need latest for one application.

System: Linux Mint 15: Mate on AMD64 hardware with NVIDIA graphics processor.

Boinc Version 7.2.28 (x64)

Both Linux Mint and Boinc are super fresh installs (Just yesterday), so I don't think this is a system configuration problem: especially since I can double-click on a .html file and it will successfully open in the default browser.

I'm not sure if this is a bug with boincmgr, a missing feature of boincmgr, and/or a problem with Google Chrome. Seems like all three to me.

Anybody else see this problem?

Regards,

Ernie D

From How to set up your default browser in Linux?

In the Linux version of BOINC Manager, if you try to click on the links to the project web pages and you get an error message about not being able to find BROWSER or BROWSER not being set then you need to do the following -

edit /etc/profile to include the following -

BROWSER="/path/to/browser"

export BROWSER

- where /path/to/browser is the executable path to your browser. To find out what this is open a terminal window and type whereis browser - so if your browser is firefox you would type whereis firefox. The result is your executable path, which maybe something like /usr/local/bin/firefox.

In this case the exact code you would add to /etc/profile would be -

BROWSER="/usr/local/bin/firefox"

export BROWSER

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