how to change browser default

Safari --> Preferences --> "General" tab --> Default Web Browser (drop down menu)

 

Has anyone noticed that, having done this, there are certain apps here and there that use browser-based help or something like that, and fail to launch the default browser? There is something I have on my system which launches Safari instead of FF, and IIRC at one time I even had software that dug out MSIE and launched it! At any rate, in the majority of cases, FF is correctly used, but there are exceptions. Anyone have this issue, and is there a fix?

 

You can change file associations.

Click on the file, select "Get Info" from the File menu (or contextual menu, or press command-I), and select the desired application from the "Open With" section. You can also change it so ALL files of a certain type open with the specified application.

 

So are you saying that, while my default HTM/HTML browser is FF, and any file that gets onto my Mac without a special association to IE or Safari will load in FF (since right now, if I double click most HTM files, they go to FF and not Safari or IE), I still may have files that a program installed, which are associated specifically to IE or Safari?

Can you please tell me more about associating ALL files? Do I just find an HTM or HTML file and choose open with, and then FF, and click the always open with box? Will doing that override these files which are specifically associated to Safari?

As much as I'd like to trash MSIE, I still might need it once in a great while. And I really don't want to trash Safari.

 

My PhotoShop opens MSIE from the Help menu, but if I put it in the Trash:

"Could not launch the web browser application because an unknown error occurred. Error #-10660"

 

Hmmm...my PS opens online support in FF, and its help browser in its own application....