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10.8: Open a specific browser based on the URL
Authored by: jcmurphy on Sep 07, '14 01:34:02PM

I could not make this work either. I got a "handler not found" type error. When clicking on any "http:" type link, nothing would launch. No Safari, Firefox or Chrome. I had to uninstall to get everything working again. I am using the current version of Mavericks and the current version of all three browsers. Does this only work for 10.8?



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10.8: Open a specific browser based on the URL
Authored by: tom_sep on Sep 11, '14 12:31:21AM

Maybe the handle's scheme doesn't match the link scheme (?)
Make sure the registered scheme is set exactly to 'http' (not HTTP or http:)



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10.8: Open a specific browser based on the URL
Authored by: jcmurphy on Sep 15, '14 09:47:48AM

i did give this a try again but ran into the same issues. The AppleScript I used was exactly as above (no changes whatsoever). All http & https web pages went right to Safari. Links to https://mail.google.com did the same.

I also tried test-http, test-https but that was a disaster. LinCastor went into a forever loop quickly adding hundreds of LinCastor generated notification windows (similar to its small notification window at startup.) I could not force quit anything and had to lean on the power button to shut-down the computer.

I will contact the author.



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