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Re: How to identify the default browser?
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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:

> Hi there,
>
> > From: "Fernando O. Raineri" <email@hidden>
> >
> > Hello. I'm running Mac OS X 10.1.4.
> >
> > Is there a way, using AppleScript, to determine the
> > identity of the default browser?
> >
> > Thank you. Fernando
>
> Not as far as I know - actually this would a prized find by many (as
> currently OS X has a _very-bad-habit_ of reverting back to IE as it's
> default browser as soon as the _user-selected-browser_ goes out of
> scope - for example, when you are updating it.)
>
> It should be a simple defaults write - but hopefully this is one of the
> things that is being updated for Jaguar.
>
> But, if you're desperate now, you could possibly put a list of all the
> known OS X browsers together in your script and cycle through them
> checking to see if they're alive in the current list of processes - or
> if they exist in the App's directory.
>
> The better alternative until things get better would be to save a
> preference file for your script that you read in to determine the
> default browser...(much simpler)
>
> with regards,
>
> --
> Lachlan Deck
> email@hidden
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