diff -r 6cc39a95f75b -r 30cbb41e0803 pidgin/gtkprefs.c
--- a/pidgin/gtkprefs.c	Fri Dec 06 14:50:14 2013 +0530
+++ b/pidgin/gtkprefs.c	Sat Dec 07 02:03:01 2013 +0530
@@ -2302,7 +2302,6 @@
 	static const struct browser possible_browsers[] = {
 		{N_("Seamonkey"), "seamonkey"},
 		{N_("Opera"), "opera"},
-		{N_("Netscape"), "netscape"},
 		{N_("Mozilla"), "mozilla"},
 		{N_("Konqueror"), "kfmclient"},
 		{N_("Google Chrome"), "google-chrome"},
@@ -4416,6 +4415,13 @@
 		purple_prefs_set_int(PIDGIN_PREFS_ROOT "/browsers/place",
 				PIDGIN_BROWSER_DEFAULT);
 	}
+
+	/* Added in 3.0.0. */
+	if (g_str_equal(
+			purple_prefs_get_string(PIDGIN_PREFS_ROOT "/browsers/browser"),
+			"netscape")) {
+		purple_prefs_set_string(PIDGIN_PREFS_ROOT "/browsers/browser", "xdg-open");
+	}
 #endif /* !_WIN32 */
 }