Re: How to identify the default browser?
Re: How to identify the default browser?
- Subject: Re: How to identify the default browser?
- From: Luis Ernesto Hernandez <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2002 00:40:41 -0400 (VET)
On Sat, 01 June 2002, in a rapture of dissapointment, Luis Hernandez
wrote:
So there's no more internet config control panel in OS X?
A die-hard (stubborn?) OS 9 user.
On Fri, 31 May 2002, Lachlan Deck wrote:
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Hi there,
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> From: "Fernando O. Raineri" <email@hidden>
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> Hello. I'm running Mac OS X 10.1.4.
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> Is there a way, using AppleScript, to determine the
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> identity of the default browser?
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> Thank you. Fernando
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Not as far as I know - actually this would a prized find by many (as
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currently OS X has a _very-bad-habit_ of reverting back to IE as it's
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default browser as soon as the _user-selected-browser_ goes out of
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scope - for example, when you are updating it.)
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It should be a simple defaults write - but hopefully this is one of the
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things that is being updated for Jaguar.
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But, if you're desperate now, you could possibly put a list of all the
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known OS X browsers together in your script and cycle through them
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checking to see if they're alive in the current list of processes - or
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if they exist in the App's directory.
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The better alternative until things get better would be to save a
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preference file for your script that you read in to determine the
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default browser...(much simpler)
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with regards,
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--
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Lachlan Deck
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email@hidden
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