links open in wrong browser

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

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!

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!

Thanks Silby

In Notes, Search with Google still went to Safari.

Thanks to you, no longer.

The icing on the cake would be if I could change the Order of the new command line from down at the bottom of the list when I right click in Notes to closer to the top (probably above the default "Search with google"

Can you help?

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.

bozo_z_clown wrote:

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

Worked for me, thank you.

See this KB article: Set the default email app or web browser on your Mac - Apple Support

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

Not a solution but (for me) an answer: I was having the same issue of right-clicking some text *in Chrome* and doing a Google search but it would launch Safari to do the search. It seems there's a contextual menu item that Chrome includes, "Search Google for 'whatever'" and there's also a contextual menu item that's included by the OS, "Search with Google." I never noticed the second one and have always just used the first, but the second one launches Safari... I must've hit it without looking. 3 times. Today. And wasted an hour trying to figure out why Safari's launching.

I guess I still don't know why Safari's launching when it knows Chrome is the browser I want to use, but oh, well.