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Re: Script to get default browser?
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Re: Script to get default browser?


  • Subject: Re: Script to get default browser?
  • From: Philip Aker <email@hidden>
  • Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 00:34:40 -0800

On Thursday, January 9, 2003, at 04:01 PM, Mr Tea wrote:

Can I use AppleScript to find out what the current default browser is?

Ok, second try. I've just installed 10.2.3 and Safari. This is working but untested for other browsers or OS versions:

set lsbundle to (do shell script "defaults read com.apple.LaunchServices | grep -C2 E:html | grep -w LSBundleIdentifier")
set blist to (words 3 thru -1 of lsbundle)
set res to ""
repeat with i from 1 to count of blist
set res to res & item i of blist & "."
end repeat
(text items 1 thru -2 of res) as string



Philip Aker
http://www.aker.ca
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