Yosemite - Safari keeps asking to be default browser

This exact thing is driving me NUTS.

There's one website that won't open in my preferred browser (chrome) and I open it in safari. Every single time I quit safari it asks if I want to keep Chrome as my default browser.

I *never* want safari as my default browser, it's simply a TERRIBLE browser, Apple should be embarrassed to release such a horrible program. None of the suggestions in this thread helped unfortunately. I guess I'll just start opening alternate stuff in Firefox. ANYTHING is better than Safari.

I got the same problem. Solved it today!! I dowmloaded Clean my mac 3 and run uninstall safari. All files.

And when I started the program again the nasty pop up window was gone!

And run this on Clean my mac was free too...

You do not need to use cleaning programs. They can destroy your computer operation.

CleanMyMac - Uninstall

CleanMyMac2 Un-install

CleanMyMac 3 Uninstall

After un-installing, use this program to make sure you got all the pieces.

EasyFind – Spotlight Replacement

This might help: https://www.aeyoun.com/how-to/osx-try-safari-promotion.html

Specifically the section entitled "Safari prompting to be default on exit"

I tried those command lines and others I found on the interweb and nothing works on the latest versions of Mac El Capitan. Has anyone found a fix for this yet. I can't take it anymore!!! SO ANNOYING!!!! Apple should be be ashamed of this, it is harassment if you ask me.

Check this out, there's another, less drastic, solution

https://www.slightfuture.com/how-to/osx-try-safari-promotion

defaults write com.apple.Safari DefaultBrowserDateOfLastPrompt -date '2050-01-01T00:00:00Z'

defaults write com.apple.Safari DefaultBrowserPromptingState -int 2

On my machine (OSX 10.12 Sierra) I see (by doing 'defaults read com.apple.Safari') they've changed the name of the first variable to DefaultBrowserDateOfLastPrompt2 and the second to DefaultBrowserPromptingState2, probably to prevent the above from working. Hmmm.