jaileer
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Q: links open in wrong browser

I have my default browser set as Chrome. When I click links in mail, or right click and select "search with google," they open in Safari.

I went to Safari to ensure that Chrome was selected as the default browser and it is. Any other ideas?

Thanks!

MacBook Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.6)

Posted on Feb 8, 2011 6:22 AM

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Q: links open in wrong browser

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  • by Matthew Morgan,

    Matthew Morgan Matthew Morgan Feb 8, 2011 6:41 AM in response to jaileer
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    Feb 8, 2011 6:41 AM in response to jaileer
    In Safari>Preferences>General do you have Chrome selected as the default browser.

    Matt

  • by jaileer,

    jaileer jaileer Feb 8, 2011 7:13 AM in response to Matthew Morgan
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    Feb 8, 2011 7:13 AM in response to Matthew Morgan
    Hi Matt ~

    Thanks for the reply! Yes, I do have Chrome selected as the default browser in that location.

  • by Matthew Morgan,Helpful

    Matthew Morgan Matthew Morgan Feb 8, 2011 7:35 AM in response to jaileer
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    Feb 8, 2011 7:35 AM in response to jaileer
    What happens if you switch it back to Safari quit then open a link.

    Change back to Chrome quit and try the link again.

    Matt

  • by jaileer,

    jaileer jaileer Feb 8, 2011 7:52 AM in response to Matthew Morgan
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    Feb 8, 2011 7:52 AM in response to Matthew Morgan
    Hmmm, This solved the links issue, but still if I right click on something and select "search in Google" it opens safari.

    Thanks for fixing the main issue, though! (i know better, i should have done that first...)

  • by Matthew Morgan,

    Matthew Morgan Matthew Morgan Feb 8, 2011 8:21 AM in response to jaileer
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    Feb 8, 2011 8:21 AM in response to jaileer
    Thanks for fixing the main issue, though! (i know better, i should have done that first...)


    You're welcome. I'm glad I could help.

    It seems that the prefererance you set in Safari can be overridden if you dismiss that dialogue warning when you first open something in Chrome.

    I'm not sure if there is any way around the Google thing.

    Matt

  • by jaileer,

    jaileer jaileer Feb 8, 2011 8:28 AM in response to Matthew Morgan
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    Feb 8, 2011 8:28 AM in response to Matthew Morgan
    Well, the links thing was the big issue, the google thing is a mere annoyance. Thanks again!

  • by mjuarez,

    mjuarez mjuarez Feb 11, 2011 5:28 AM in response to jaileer
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    Feb 11, 2011 5:28 AM in response to jaileer
    jaileer wrote:
    I have my default browser set as Chrome. When I click links in mail, or right click and select "search with google," they open in Safari.

    Thanks!


    I'm running into this same issue. Seems like Mac Mail's "Search with Google" option is somehow hard-wired to Safari. Any ideas on how to fix this?

  • by Neal Bridgens,

    Neal Bridgens Neal Bridgens Mar 2, 2011 4:02 PM in response to mjuarez
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    Mar 2, 2011 4:02 PM in response to mjuarez
    I'm having this problem too. And it transferred to my new laptop with migration assistant somehow.
    Not a problem on my promac, it opens with chrome just fine.

  • by notetoself.net,

    notetoself.net notetoself.net Mar 2, 2011 7:32 PM in response to jaileer
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    Mar 2, 2011 7:32 PM in response to jaileer
    I found this and several similar threads while looking for an answer to my issue. When selecting text and clicking "Search in Google" within Preview, Safari opens even though Chrome is my default browser.

    From the other threads, I see that several other Apple applications override the user's browser preference and force them to use Safari. This seems familiar. Didn't Microsoft get into trouble a few years back when they manipulated the OS to prefer Internet Explorer over other browsers?

  • by Krag,

    Krag Krag Mar 3, 2011 9:19 AM in response to notetoself.net
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    Mar 3, 2011 9:19 AM in response to notetoself.net
    It may be they coded Mail to use Safari rather than the Default Browser. My Safari issues stopped when I switched to "open in 32 bit mode".

  • by andyBall_uk,

    andyBall_uk andyBall_uk Mar 3, 2011 9:44 AM in response to notetoself.net
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    Mar 3, 2011 9:44 AM in response to notetoself.net
    The 'search with google' option is a 'service' offered by the Safari application, like 'look up in dictionary' or 'new textedit window'...

    I suppose that it should be named differently, since plenty of people expect it to use the default browser.

    see the macworld hint at http://hintsforums.macworld.com/showthread.php?t=111762 post #9

  • by silby102,

    silby102 silby102 Jul 26, 2011 3:43 PM in response to jaileer
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    Jul 26, 2011 3:43 PM in response to jaileer

    Similar problem I've found but fixed. I have a broken arm and it's difficult to hold down cmd and click or do the shortcut (which doesn't work anymore), so I found a workaround based on http://rentzsch.tumblr.com/post/5794765921/search-with-google-using-chrome

     

    It will take less than a minute to implement.

     

    Open Automater -> Choose Service -> Find 'Run Shell Script' action and drag to workflow window -> Choose '/usr/bin/ruby' from Shell drop down menu -> type the following

    require 'cgi'

    `open 'http://www.google.com/search?q=#{CGI.escape(STDIN.read.chomp)}'`

     

    Then save it with a title like "Search With Google (New Window)" and you are done. Then rather than using the shortcut, just right click the highlighted text you want to search and you can use this new service. It should work with whatever you have your default browser to be set to in Safari preferences. Just make sure you choose the new service and not the original.

  • by bozo_z_clown,

    bozo_z_clown bozo_z_clown Mar 10, 2012 11:55 AM in response to Matthew Morgan
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    Mar 10, 2012 11:55 AM in response to Matthew Morgan

    Resetting the default browser to Chrome in Safari (even though that is what it showed it was already set to) fixed the issue for me (the Pandora app was opening links in an old copy of Firefox).

     

    1. Open Safari
    2. Open "Preferences..."
    3. On the "General" tab set the "Default Web Browser" to "Safari"
    4. Close Safari
    5. Open Safari
    6. Open "Preferences..."
    7. On the "General" tab set the "Default Web Browser" to "Chrome" (or your choice)
    8. Close Safari
    9. Try your link again

  • by BCPfan,

    BCPfan BCPfan Jul 15, 2012 10:04 AM in response to bozo_z_clown
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    Jul 15, 2012 10:04 AM in response to bozo_z_clown

    Bozo-

    I know this issue and thread are a few months old, but I too was sick of the "search google" function/short cut searching with Safari instead of Chrome.  I searched google for a fix and this thread came up.  Bozo's solution worked perfectly.  I thought the fix seemed too easy, but it worked great.  Thx!

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