Mail not using default browser?

On 25-Aug-2007, at 08:32, bignoseduglyguy wrote:
> Does anyone have a suggestion as to how I can ensure Mail selects
> Firefox when I use the 'Search In Google' right-click option?

As far as I know, that's not possible. That menu item is tied to
Safari specifically.

It looks to me as if this is something built in to Mail that would require a
software patch to change. There is nothing in the Preferences. It ought to
be using your default browser. It's a bug, IMO. Report it as such to Apple.
--

Allen Watson

> Does anyone have a suggestion as to how I can ensure Mail selects
> Firefox when I use the 'Search In Google' right-click option?
> Despite having Firefox selected as the default browser, Mail fires up
> Safari each time.

Sorry to not have an answer. I just want to add that iCal insists on
sending out invitations via Mail, too, and not via my default mail client.

It seems that Apple's own apps are crippled so that they work only with
other Apple software and do not respect default app settings. I'm not
sure how this is so different from MS insisting that IE is part of the
operating system and making it so hard to get around using it.

kazar

> Does anyone have a suggestion as to how I can ensure Mail selects
> Firefox when I use the 'Search In Google' right-click option?
> Despite having Firefox selected as the default browser, Mail fires up
> Safari each time.

It does the same thing with Camino. Annoying it can't be bothered to
check whether your default browser *is* Safari. Borderline facist
behaviour.

Would Applescript be able to help here? Could it suppress the launch
of Safari as well as launch the default browser to do the search?

Regards,

GAM

All

Thanks for the responses - it's not a big deal but I was hoping that
I'd missed something.

Buzz

> Would Applescript be able to help here? Could it suppress the launch
> of Safari as well as launch the default browser to do the search?

I'm an AppleScript virgin so haven't tried- I have tried Automator
but to no avail.

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On Aug 27, 2007, at 2:33 AM, Glen McAllister wrote:

> Would Applescript be able to help here? Could it suppress the launch
> of Safari as well as launch the default browser to do the search?

I suspect that's the problem: *could* it launch the default browser
*to do the search*? Do the various alternative browsers support use
of Apple events to trigger a desired search? (I haven't looked.)
Will they keep doing so across versions (especially given the trouble
Firefox had with being passed crafted URLs over on Windows)?

Using Safari has the advantage for Apple that they know it works, and
they can keep it working across updates. (That's not so say they
won't mess that up, but the *can* keep it working.)

As one who has never clicked something in the mail program to induce
a search in a browser, I have no idea how that works from the
keyboard/mouse side of the action or from the coding details.

   --John

For years I use a very useful small preference pane for setting protocol helper applications. You can download it at VersionTracker. The name is: "More Internet". Most recent version: 1.2. Loads on PPC and also on Intel Macs.