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How to change default web browser
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I'm a former windows user who's converting to Mac and love it. But the one thing that is bugging me persistently is that can't figure out how to reconfigure what my default internet browser is. I'd rather use FireFox than Safari, but whenever I click on a link in my email, I get a Safari window.....
How do I change this? Is it a global setting? Do I set that function in the browser itself (like on Windows, though I can't find such an option)?
Thanks for the help!
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If you go into the preferences of Safari under General there is a place to change the default browser.
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You can change the default web browser in Safari's preferences. Yes, this is a stupid place for it to be.
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The option is in Safari itself somewhere (yes, it is rather unintuitive for Apple). Check the Safari preferences and you should be able to find it under one of the preference tab things. I'd tell you what it is, but I'm booted in OS9 at the moment, so no access to Safari right now. But yeah, the place to look is in the Safari preferences.
EDIT: Ok, seems I was redundant...lol.
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Originally Posted by Angus_D
You can change the default web browser in Safari's preferences. Yes, this is a stupid place for it to be.
Yeah, it reminds me disturbingly of Internet Explorer for Windows *shudder*.
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ok. i duplicated the safari and put hacks like buttons and the print on the bug in it and saved it to my user application folder. i cant seem to get it to switch to this safari as my default browser.
reason i duplicated it is because we got 6 other users besides me on this computer and i dont want them mad that they are seeing all my hacks when they use safari.
i go to safaris gernal and change it to the other safari. i did this on both of them and it seems to want to keep it to the one it finds in the system applications.
i edited the executable and the info.plist thinking it would work but it didnt.
anyone know a way to force it to change? were the pref file is so i can type it in?
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Unless you can get different versions of Safari, I don't see how you could trick it into using your specific copy of it over the one in the root level Applications folder. If you can get two different versions though, it'll recognize them as being different and you should be able to do it at that point.
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"The captured hunter hunts your mind."
Profanity is the tool of the illiterate.
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