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Change Your Default Browser in MacOS X
Finally made the switch from the Safari web browser to Firefox? (BTW - If you haven't yet, I recommend you give Firefox a test drive). With this quick tutorial I'll show you how to change your default web browser in MacOS X (Panther).
Let's get started.
You would probably expect to find the setting for the default web browser in the System Preferences but alas, it's not there. To change your default browser, open Safari and go to the Safari Menu (upper left of your screen -menu bar - see image 1 below) and click on Preferences (image 2 below).
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Clicking on Preferences will bring up the preferences menu (image below). Finally, select the browser of your choice from the Default Browser Menu and click the close button. Now any time that you click on a URL in a email or on a disk, it will open in your newly set default browser.
- Firefox Download [Mozilla.org]
- Firefox 1.0 - The IE Killer [gBradhopkins.com]
- Firefox 1.0 - The IE Killer [gBradhopkins.com]
Comments
I need to go from Thunderbird to Firefox when I click on a link. Now I get IE, which is pokey slow and tired.
Posted by: Paul Wilkins | March 11, 2005 02:37 AM
We removed Safari from our OS X system (Panther) and for some reason, Opera has just become the browser that launches when we click on email links. We prefer Firefox to be our default browser, but without Safari to set the preferences for the default browser, what do we do?
Thanks (I would remove Opera, but it's required for some running of Macromedia Dreamweaver for some files.) -- Andy
Posted by: andy | March 17, 2005 12:36 PM
Thanks! That was so easy and quick. I thought it would be something you'd have to do in the browser of your choice. Most appreciative.
Posted by: ted | April 6, 2005 02:09 AM