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OK, this article describes the extent of the problem:

http://blog.codef00.com/2011/02/18/the- ... x-debacle/

It seems skype uses the BROWSER environment variable convention. So setting that to /usr/bin/chromium-browser means skype will now use chromium.

Even editing ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list as suggested 2 replies back, doesn't seem to effect where skype fetches its browser from. Skype claims to use the default browser, but after doing the above, it still uses firefox. There must be another file around somewhere that says firefox is...

Thanks for the very speedy reply! And for the pointer as to why kernels are treated specially. I'm now up and running in PAE mode.

I thought I'd read in the doco that the install process would automatically install the -pae- kernel if it found you had heaps of RAM. My i7 with 6G of RAM ran the Ubuntu -pae- kernel fine, but the Mint install didn't offer it as an option. There's no sign of it in /boot: # ls /boot abi-3.2.0-23-gen...