change browser used when clicking links?
Reported by O'Shaughnessy Evans | June 12th, 2014 @ 04:27 PM
Hi, Benny.
I don't know if this is a common workflow, but here's my scenario: I use MailMate and Chrome for work stuff and Apple Mail and Safari for personal stuff. My system default browser is Safari. When I want to click a link in an email in MailMate, I have to right-click to copy then paste it into Chrome.
Would you consider added a browser preference override to MailMate, so that I could tell it to launch Chrome instead of the system default browser when clicking web URLs? It's a feature I'd use many times every day.
Thanks.
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benny June 13th, 2014 @ 10:49 AM
- State changed from “new” to “fixcommitted”
In the next update of MailMate, the following should work:
defaults write com.freron.MailMate OakBrowserAppBundleIdentifier -string "com.google.Chrome"I'm not sure it's a useful feature for many users though...
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O'Shaughnessy Evans June 14th, 2014 @ 04:09 AM
Yeah, I wonder. :-)
Thanks for adding it. I'll test it out w/the next beta release.
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O'Shaughnessy Evans June 18th, 2014 @ 04:30 PM
Just tested it w/the latest release. Works great! Thanks :^)
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O'Shaughnessy Evans October 2nd, 2014 @ 04:11 AM
So, Benny, if I wanted to change it to Firefox or Safari, what strings should I use? :^)
Thanks!
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O'Shaughnessy Evans October 2nd, 2014 @ 04:17 AM
I see that "com.apple.Safari" works for Safari and "org.mozilla.firefox" for Firefox. Know any others?
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benny October 2nd, 2014 @ 06:59 AM
You can use the following command to get the value from any application:
defaults read /Applications/Safari.app/Contents/Info.plist CFBundleIdentifier -
O'Shaughnessy Evans October 2nd, 2014 @ 05:09 PM
Hi, Benny. I've written up a simple little script to change the browser. It recognizes Chrome, Firefox, and Safari.
./mm-browser MailMate browser: org.mozilla.firefox Browser options: chrome, firefox, safari ./mm-browser safari MailMate browser: org.mozilla.firefox -> com.apple.SafariThis way I won't have to remember how to change it later :-) I thought others might find the script useful, too, so please feel free to share it.
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benny October 5th, 2014 @ 12:31 PM
It's certainly a reminder to me that I should either make it easier to change hidden preferences (via a URL scheme) or add a GUI for more of the hidden preferences.
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