force certain url(s) to open with safari

I use firefox for my browsing, but I have so many blockers and security extensions in place that a few sites won't function in FF. so I just open those few sites with safari, and all is well. but I would like to force my these sites to open in safari, and all others open with ff. for example: when I drag a shortcut to my desktop from one of these sites, and force it to open with safari, it works that one time. but when I double-click on it again, it opens in ff (since ff is set globally as my default browser). help!

15" powerbook (new version), Mac OS X (10.4.3), 100 GB 7200 rpm hd

Posted on Apr 12, 2006 7:57 PM

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Apr 12, 2006 9:43 PM in response to gazerbeam

Hi

If you mean you want those specific shortcuts on your desktop to open with Firefox; then yes you can.

Ctrl-click a shortcut ( or select more than one & ctrl-click) ,choose 'get info'

in the 'open with:' section, change it to Safari.

don't click the 'change all' button - just close the info window(s).


That should force just those particular shortcuts to use Safari.

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