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Script to change the default browser on Mac OS X

Hi,

My bank requires me to use an old version of Netscape in classic to connect with their "security plug-in" (sucks but for now I have no choice). For this thing to work, I have to have this old classic version of Netscape set as my default browser in the Internet control panel of classic. I figured this would be fine since I don't really use classic anymore except for this. Turns out though that the IC prefs are shared between Mac OS X and Classic and now when I click on an http link in X it launches Classic and this old Netscape. This is driving me crazy.

I figured I'd just write a script that set the default browser to netscape/classic, launches netscape and then sets the pref back when finished. However, I can find no way to change to default browser setting using AS in Mac OS X.

I could of course write a small Cocoa or Carbon app that called ICSetPref but this seems a little heavy handed for such a simple thing.

Sorry if this has been mentioned before but I couldn't find anything in the archives.

Thierry
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