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writertools - issue #49

Default browser in OS X


Posted on Mar 21, 2010 by Massive Lion

What steps will reproduce the problem? 1. /Applications/Firefox.app won't work 2. /Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/firefox-bin only allows one instance, conflicts with GUI launched Firefox.app

Please provide any additional information below.

I got the ShowOnMap tool working by using this as my default browser: open -a /Applications/Safari.app/

Since the dialog doesn't recognize OS X style apps.

Safari works nicer than Firefox.app since Firefox won't load in a new tab and insists on starting a new browser session. This forces you to close your currently open brower with each launch. Safari works better and creates a new tab for each instance.

Comment #1

Posted on Aug 4, 2010 by Swift Hippo

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Status: New

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Type-Enhancement Priority-Low