thanks for taking time to report this bug and helping to make ubuntu better. Please open gnome-default-applications-properties and there select the default browser to chromium. if its not installed install it with the command that it will give you. "probably it is using gnome's prefered app" in either case upstream developers are sure its not empathy bug so I will mark this invalid.
** Changed in: empathy (Ubuntu) Status: New => Invalid -- Empathy does not honor default browser when clicking URLs in chat https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/576734 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is subscribed to empathy in ubuntu. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs