Google Chrome is set as the default browser, however it opens links in Firefox, which is undesired.
Google Chrome
How to make org-mode to open links in
org-mode
For chrubuntu, the google-chrome incantation as given above by Lex Fridman works with emacs 23.3.1, the default as of today. I suspect the chrubuntu configuration even when tickled to use chromium uses the wrong binary name.