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Mac Forum / Applications / Firefox / Mozilla / November 2003Mozilla needs "Set as Default" feature?
Maybe I'm just missing it, but it looks like Panther did away with the Internet Control panel, for selecting a default webbrowser. 'More Internet' works OK, but is non-standard. Help has this to say: ---- Setting your preferred Internet applications You can choose which application opens when you click an Internet address link in a document (such as a Mail message), open a Web Internet Location file in the Finder, or click a properly formatted email address on a webpage. For example, you can make Safari your default web browser and Mail your default email application. To set Safari and Mail as your default Internet applications: Open Safari, then choose Safari > Preferences. Click the General icon, and then choose Safari from the Default Web Browser pop-up menu. Open Mail, then choose Mail > Preferences. Click the General icon, and then choose Mail from the Default Email Reader. ----- Does Mozilla need to be able to set itself via IC? I'm guessing the Windows version already has a UI? I think I saw a RFE big on that... I think it was filled as a Camino bug. > Maybe I'm just missing it, but it looks like Panther did away with the > Internet Control panel, for selecting a default webbrowser. 'More [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] > Does Mozilla need to be able to set itself via IC? I'm guessing the > Windows version already has a UI? Guess what? All you need to do to set Mozilla as tyour default browser is go into Safari>Preferences>General and choose MOZILLA (instead of Safari) as you default App. If you use something beisdes Mail as your mail reader, do the same in Mail's preferences. Not nice, but that's where Apple moved the IC preferences. Jyri Bill McGonigle :: > Maybe I'm just missing it, but it looks like Panther did away with the > Internet Control panel, for selecting a default webbrowser. 'More [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] > Does Mozilla need to be able to set itself via IC? I'm guessing the > Windows version already has a UI? > Not nice, but that's where Apple moved the IC preferences. The point is that the only way that a user can discover those prefs now is to use a competitor to the software he's actually trying to use... The goal of having similar UI in Mozilla is so that users can just use it without having to run Safari first. -Boris > > Not nice, but that's where Apple moved the IC preferences. > [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > > -Boris Greetings, I only got the last two posts in this thread so this question may have been asked already: Isn't the MacOS X fully capable of setting the mail and web default applications using the "Internet" settings in the System Preferences? Personally, I think it's stupid that a piece of software could claim being the default application itself. OJ > I only got the last two posts in this thread You should read the rest of the thread.... > Isn't the MacOS X fully capable of setting the mail and web default > applications using the "Internet" settings in the System Preferences? Apple, in its infinite wisdom (or more likely its desire that no other software but Apple's should be used), has seen fit to remove those settings from System Preferences in 10.3. -Boris > > I only got the last two posts in this thread > > You should read the rest of the thread.... I don't know how. ;( > > Isn't the MacOS X fully capable of setting the mail and web default > > applications using the "Internet" settings in the System Preferences? [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > -Boris Ah, I'm still using Jaguar. >> > Not nice, but that's where Apple moved the IC preferences. >> [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > Personally, I think it's stupid that a piece of software could claim being > the default application itself. That is the problem. In 10.3, Apple has done away with the Internet settings in the System Preferences. You have to load up Safari to change the default web browser now. If you want to change your mail application, you have to load up Mail and change the default setting there. Jeff Jeff Grossman spoke:: >>Greetings, >> [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > > Jeff Some have said that you could use 10.2's old Internet Pref panel to sey your default browser under 10.3... something to keep in mind for all those who are still waiting to upgrade... see macosxhints.com for more info on that. |
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