Setting from command line for "Make Chrome to be user's default browser"

[nobody]

Apr 16 (11 hours ago)

Hi,

I need to set Chrome to be default a browser from command line for all users in dozens of remote virtual machines running on CentOS 6. I know setting default browser can be done from Chrome chrome://chrome/settings/, but it is not feasible to open every users Chrome to set it up. Is there any command line to set Chrome as a default browser? If not, which file defines default browser I can copy a predefined configuration file to each machine?

Thank you.

Regards.

[Jack Waugh]

This is to suggest that a standard way be added to Chromium to set any settings from the command line.

My use case: When I install a new major version of Xubuntu, I don't know that the version of Chromium that comes with Xubuntu necessarily uses compatible persistent state stores to those of earlier versions of Chromium that I may have been using. The only way to know for sure whether the provided version of Chromium behaves itself properly is to start it with fresh persistent state. However, there are certain settings I like to use, and I want them across some six or eight distinct state stores that I use for different personae. So I would like to be able to write a shell script that would set everything up, to save me the time of going into the settings form of each instance and repeating the setup by hand.

On Wednesday, April 16, 2014 at 7:30:17 PM UTC-4, nobody wrote:

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