Re: How to identify the default browser?
Re: How to identify the default browser?
- Subject: Re: How to identify the default browser?
- From: Lachlan Deck <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 31 May 2002 23:49:08 +1000
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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