Changing the Default Browser for Adobe Air Apps under Ubuntu

I use TweekDeck as my Twitter client and recently I had to rebuild my Ubuntu Linux desktop which meant trying to remember all the “tweaks” I had to make. One of these is the annoying fact that TweetDeck tries to use some deprecated Gnome environment variable to determine the default browser (clearly not many of the Adobe developers use Ubuntu much). Anyway, the “fix” is a derivative of this solution. The only difference is I used the path to the Google Chrome binary (that’s my default) to symlink /usr/local/bin/browser to. Also, my Air installation had libCore.so in a different place so I did a combination “updatedb” and “locate libCore.so” from a terminal. From there I edited it and replaced the firefox with ‘browser’. Note that the line number I found it on (and the one in the article above) are unreliable so search for ‘openUrl’ and the next field should be the one you need to change. Leave a comment if this helps you…it helps me stay motivated to even bother posting tips like this.