Re: Setting Default Browser in OS X
Re: Setting Default Browser in OS X
- Subject: Re: Setting Default Browser in OS X
- From: Paul Berkowitz <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 07 May 2002 07:14:55 -0700
And if anyone is interested, I keep getting my application for ftp being
re-set to OmniWeb! I'm quite sure that no one at Apple has intended that,
but it happens anyway.
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Paul Berkowitz
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From: Rob Morton <email@hidden>
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Date: Tue, 07 May 2002 09:54:45 -0400
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To: AppleScript <email@hidden>
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Subject: Re: Setting Default Browser in OS X
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For anyone that is interested, it seems to be the case that Apple really
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wants you to use IE be default. When you create a new user, it seems to
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always default to IE regardless of what you list as the "IsDefaultHandler =
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YES" in the DefaultHelperApps.plist. I really have no idea why this would be
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the case, but it is annoying. I can set almost anything else with my
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preferences for what my company uses except a browser. I would assume most
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companies have a default browser that may or may not be IE, so this seems
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kind of bad.
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Rob Morton
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on 5/7/02 8:40 AM, Rob Morton at email@hidden wrote:
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> Thanks, that will get me started anyway. Unfortunately I have tried most of
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> that, but never all at once. Most of what I am writing this script to do
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> seems like it could be challenging.
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> I am creating a new user with a unique UID, setting up some of the security
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> features, and setting the default browser to Netscape (don't ask). So far, I
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> can do everything except the browser. When you create a new user, IE will be
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> used (these hints hopefully stopping it). That just seems very odd and
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> surprising.
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> Rob Morton
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> on 5/7/02 7:17 AM, Paul Skinner at email@hidden wrote:
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