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!

I know this is 5 years old, but now, in 2017, Step 7 is impossible, because there is no longer a pull-down in Safari to set a Default Browser.

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

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-

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!