jaileer

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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  • by CodyHoll,

    CodyHoll CodyHoll Jan 6, 2013 11:46 PM in response to jaileer
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    Jan 6, 2013 11:46 PM in response to jaileer

    I know this is old but I think I may have just solved it under the Safari>preferences>RSS tab and change default to Chrome.

  • by WyoLarsens,

    WyoLarsens WyoLarsens Mar 29, 2013 4:12 PM in response to jaileer
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    Mar 29, 2013 4:12 PM in response to jaileer

    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.

  • by BerndNW,

    BerndNW BerndNW Apr 9, 2013 9:12 AM in response to silby102
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    Apr 9, 2013 9:12 AM in response to silby102

    Great, it worked! Thanks silby102

  • by CREAMASTER,

    CREAMASTER CREAMASTER Nov 26, 2013 11:14 AM in response to andyBall_uk
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    Nov 26, 2013 11:14 AM in response to andyBall_uk

    This is amazing. It's 2013, almost 2014 as I write this and I see here it's been a bug since 2011… I thought - but no! This has been an issue since 2002! So I guess this is a feature not a bug?

     

    Search with Google still opens the wrong browser - even after 10 years of being a bug.

  • by mmmond,

    mmmond mmmond Jan 31, 2014 10:01 AM in response to bozo_z_clown
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    Jan 31, 2014 10:01 AM in response to bozo_z_clown

    fail

  • by Julian88888888,

    Julian88888888 Julian88888888 May 25, 2014 6:54 AM in response to bozo_z_clown
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    May 25, 2014 6:54 AM in response to bozo_z_clown

    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.

  • by dm501,

    dm501 dm501 Apr 4, 2016 5:08 AM in response to silby102
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    Apr 4, 2016 5:08 AM in response to silby102

    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?Screenshot 2016-04-04 21.57.50.png

  • by tim kruse,

    tim kruse tim kruse May 18, 2016 10:28 AM in response to silby102
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    May 18, 2016 10:28 AM in response to silby102

    Thank you so much for showing me how to do this!!! I know very little about computers but was able to get Chrome as the default search when right clicking after following your instructions. Appreciate it very much.

     

    Tim

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