not opening the browser

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What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. insert something to search for
2. press the Search button

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
It should open the gnome default browser with the google search results for 
my query. Instead, nothing happens.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
1.6, Ubuntu 9.10, Google Chrome as default browser (tryed also setting 
firefox as default in gnome)

Please provide any additional information below.

none

Original issue reported on code.google.com by [email protected] on 20 Mar 2010 at 2:10