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Setting Default Browser
Authored by: w3stoner on Apr 20, '02 12:43:12PM

Umm perhaps I missed something? All I did to change my
default brower was to open the System Preferences:Internet.
Then selected "Select" from the Default Web Brower option.
I then weaved down through my folders and selected the Mozilla
App. And there you have it. Mozilla is now my default browser.
When I click on a link in email I get Mozilla, etc.

Since doing this I've had no problems with Explorer spawning
itself. (unless of course *I* decide to use it and call it up
directly).



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Setting Default Browser
Authored by: kerouassady on Apr 20, '02 12:57:37PM

You did indeed miss something. My default internet settings are regularly reset to Internet Explorer. I think it happens whenever you alter IEs preferences. It alters the internet config settings the same way it did in OS9. Being altered, they get reset to the default. At work, where I am regularly switching between browsers and am forced to use IE to click on links in Outlook 2001 (where it will launch classic IE if I don't have IEX open) even though Omniweb is my usual default, it happens all the time. I even have my Download folder reset to my Desktop fairly regularly, especially when I upgrade Mozilla.



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Setting Default Browser
Authored by: w3stoner on Apr 20, '02 01:06:39PM

s*ck! That's damn annoying. Mercifully I'm not forced
to use IE enough that I need to muck with its prefs.



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lock your internet prefs file
Authored by: Anonymous on Apr 22, '02 01:27:18PM

To prevent Internet Explorer from being set as your default every time you restart (or so it seems), set the System Prefs/Internet/Web browser to the one you want, and then go to your home directory, then to your Library folder, and then to the Preferences folder, and get info on the file "com.apple.internetconfig.plist", and check the "Locked" box. Now it will stay the way you set it.



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lock your internet prefs file
Authored by: hembeck on Oct 01, '02 02:57:41PM

But when legimate changes to the settings, like maybe establishing a new default home page, be prevented using this method?

_fernando



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