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    How I finally got Conkeror to be the default browser on Ubuntu 11.10.

    The beginning was this bug comment: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/natty/+source/gnome-control-center/+bug/708382/comments/4

    There was also a .desktop file entry, from an answer here http://askubuntu.com/questions/45885/how-do-i-set-a-custom-browser-as-default-in-preferred-applications by 'rakete'

    So it ended up being, create this file in ~/.local/share/applications/firefox.desktop

    #!/usr/bin/env xdg-open

    [Desktop Entry]
    Version=1.0
    Type=Application
    Terminal=false
    Icon=conkeror.png
    Name=Conkeror
    Comment=Emacs like Web Browser
    GenericName=Web Browser
    Exec=conkeror %u
    Categories=GNOME;GTK;Network;WebBrowser;
    MimeType=text/html;text/xml;application/xhtml+xml;application/xml;application/vnd.mozilla.xul+xml;application/rss+xml;application/rdf+xml;image/gif;image/jpeg;image/png;x-scheme-handler/http;x-scheme-handler/https;x-scheme-handler/ftp;x-scheme-handler/chrome;video/webm;

    Conkeror was installed from apt-get by adding this PPA:

    sudo apt-add-repository ppa:xtaran/conkeror

    Once that's all set, run this command to trick Gnome into using your local firefox.desktop. It'll think it's running Firefox (it is remarkably stubborn about insisting on Firefox) but will run your command instead:

    update-desktop-database ~/.local/share/applications gnome-default-applications-properties