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Starred by 2 users
Status: WontFix
Owner: ----
Closed: Sep 2017
Cc:
grt@chromium.org
█ manoranj...@chromium.org
█ hdodda@chromium.org
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EstimatedDays: ----
NextAction: ----
OS: Windows
Pri: 2
Type: Bug



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can't set Chrome as default browser

Project Member Reported by skobes@chromium.org, Aug 31 2017 
Chrome Version       : 60.0.3112.113
OS Version: 6.1 (Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2)

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Click "Set as default" in toolbar (see screenshot)
2. Close and reopen Chrome

What is the expected result?
Chrome is default browser.

What happens instead of that?
Prompt "Google Chrome isn't your default browser" reappears.  URLs typed into the Start menu open in IE 9.

This is on a freshly reimaged ThinkPad X1 with Windows 7.

UserAgentString: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/60.0.3112.113 Safari/537.36
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Comment 1 by manoranj...@chromium.org, Aug 31 2017

Cc: grt@chromium.org
Components: Internals>Installer
Labels: Needs-Feedback
skobes@, thank you for the report. By chance this was a side-by-side user install?

Comment 2 by skobes@chromium.org, Sep 1 2017 

No I don't think so, I just downloaded it from https://www.google.com/chrome.
Project Member

Comment 3 by sheriffbot@chromium.org, Sep 1 2017

Cc: manoranj...@chromium.org
Labels: -Needs-Feedback
Thank you for providing more feedback. Adding requester "manoranjanr@chromium.org" to the cc list and removing "Needs-Feedback" label.

For more details visit https://www.chromium.org/issue-tracking/autotriage - Your friendly Sheriffbot

Comment 4 by hdodda@chromium.org, Sep 5 2017

Cc: hdodda@chromium.org
Labels: Needs-Triage-M60
Tested the issue on windows 7 Desktop & Lenovo Thinkpad x1 using M60 #60.0.3112.113 and M63 #63.0.3205.0 and issue is not reproduced with the steps below:

1. Launched chrome and clicked on "Set as default" on tool bar .
2. Closed and reopened chrome and chrome becomes the default browser and no prompt is seen

Attached screencast for reference.

Thanks!
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Comment 5 by grt@chromium.org, Sep 6 2017 

OP: could you provide a screenshot of chrome://version?

Comment 6 by skobes@chromium.org, Sep 7 2017 

Screenshot attached.

Note: I also tried going into Control Panel > Default Programs, but Chrome doesn't appear in the list...
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Comment 7 by skobes@chromium.org, Sep 7 2017 

Hmm, I downloaded Chrome again and re-ran the installer and now the problem has resolved itself.  Maybe the first installation didn't fully succeed?  I also installed some Windows updates in the meantime which might have made a difference.

Comment 8 by grt@chromium.org, Sep 14 2017

Status: WontFix (was: Unconfirmed)
Glad to hear it's working now. Still a mystery as to what went wrong. Feel free to re-open if it happens again. Thanks.
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