evan_tech

The emacs-configured browser is used for operations like previewing your markdown buffer (markdown-preview; C-c C-c p in markdown-mode).

I still am not an emacs ninja, but this seems to work:

(setq browse-url-browser-function 'browse-url-generic
      browse-url-generic-program "google-chrome")

PS: while I'm on the subject, the patch to make emacs keybindings work in web content landed today. I've yet to try it.