Re: Make firefox default browser?

Job wrote:
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> Rufus wrote:
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>> Job wrote:
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>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> is there a way to make firefox the default browser on OS X? I just 
>>> installed Thunderbird, and clicking a link in an email opens 
>>> Netscape.. :( - reason for installing thunderbird was to get rid of 
>>> netscape...
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks, best,
>>>
>>> Job
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>> It's goofy, but what I think you have to do is open Safari and tell it 
>> what your default browser is - that's what I had to do to make 
>> Netscape 7.2 my default over Safari when I upgraded to Tiger.
>>
> 
> Well... viva Apple... at least there IS a way to do it...
> 
> Thanks,
> Job

Yes, its an Apple thing
It started in 10.2 when Apple made Apple Mail the standard (default) 
email program, and then continued with Safari in later versions of the 
system.  The Internet Control Panel doesnt exist in later systems 
because its not required, you set the default browser in Safari, and set 
the default email (news) program in Apple Mail.

Setting the defaults to their own products is a way of encouraging use 
of those products, or at least getting people to try them out. But Apple 
provides a simple method of changing (within the program) if it doesnt 
work out.
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