Re: Setting Default Browser in OS X
Re: Setting Default Browser in OS X
- Subject: Re: Setting Default Browser in OS X
- From: garbanzito <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 6 May 2002 22:17:23 -0600
at 2002 05 06, 22:18 -0400, they whom i call Rob Morton wrote:
Yeah, but most preferences are XML based and thus scriptable. I can make all
sorts of changes to those text file and thing become sort of scriptable. For
example, I can easily make changes to the screen saver by changing
com.apple.screensaver.<unique number>.plist Never found the files to change
the default browser though.
it would seem that it's:
com.apple.internetconfig.plist (Version 2.5.3/ic-added/Helper:http
and Helper:https)
however the value is binary (perhaps it's a file reference),
and i recall hearing about some interesting difficulties of
people who were trying to work around the behavior of
Explorer constantly regaining default status ... i just
tried switching my pref to OmniWeb and the value in that
plist did not change, so perhaps it is also cached until
logout.
further, when i made that change, the files which control
application binding (LSSchemes, LSClaimedTypes &
LSApplications) had their mod dates bumped. i don't believe
the format of those files is publicly specified ...
also note that if you edit a plist for some aspect of the
system that is normally always running, your changes may be
overridden at logout unless you can figure out a way to
signal the relevant component to reread its prefs ...
--
steve harley email@hidden
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