Steps: 1) Open "Preffered Applications" 2) Select "Custom Web Browser" 3) Enter "epiphany -n %s" in the Command textbox and click ok 4) Use the "Web Broser" launcher or run htmlview from the terminal (with or without a URL). Results: "Error: The broser epiphany -n does not exits. Please reconfigure" Applications that read the "preferred web browser" setting directly from gconf work properly.
*** Bug 131680 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Works for me.