The Woman Who Talked Too Much: A Geeky Post

Tuesday, 1 July 2008

A Geeky Post

Bloody hell, Firefox 3 is fast.

7 comments:

Nick Jordan said...: It is, isn't it. Glad to read that you're using it.; 1 July 2008 17:09
Alun said...: It's fantastic, or at least it would be if Norton Anti-Virus didn't clog up my pc all the time.

Probably not the place for this kind of discussion...; 1 July 2008 22:09
Marie said...: And yet. These threads have uses. For example: even though I have set it as my default browser, my e-mail still opens up Safari when I click a link in a message. Thoughts?; 1 July 2008 22:14
Anonymous said...: That's because Safari is set as the default browser.

If you want FF3 instead, got to Firefox->Preferences->General->Always Check to see if FF is the default browser on startup->Tick the checkbox

I'm doing this from a Vista machine, so the wording may be slightly off as I can't quite remember the Mac Prefs dialogue

Bro

PS. Having said all that - I can't remember whether you need to set something in Apple Mail as well to force it to use something other than Safari. If the above does not work, let me know and I'll take a look tonight.; 2 July 2008 09:53
Marie said...: Have already done that. It's Thunderbird which is defaulting to Safari, and I've had a good explore of that and can't find anywhere which gives you the option to change the default. Over to you, Bro :-); 2 July 2008 11:52
Anonymous said...: OK, first off:

- Open Safari
- Safar->Prefs->General
- Ensure that FF is the default web browser in Safari's eyes

If that does not work, you're going to have to do a bit of file hacking, so email me and I'll let you know what to do.

Bro; 3 July 2008 08:52
Marie said...: It works! Thanks bro!; 4 July 2008 17:20

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