Q: Yosemite - Safari keeps asking to be default browser

Every time I quit out of Safari it it asks to be the default browser and I can't get it to stop. I don't use it as my default browser but often use it for testing websites so it gets pretty annoying.

Has anyone ever seen this? Is there a hidden setting somewhere similar to the check every time in Firefox?

Thanks,

-peel

iMac, OS X Yosemite (10.10.3)

Posted on Apr 21, 2015 7:24 PM

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by Micah D.,

Micah D. Aug 19, 2015 7:29 AM in response to dominic23
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Aug 19, 2015 7:29 AM in response to dominic23

Why would anyone do this, it makes Safari your default browser. Safari is *awful*.
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by Micah D.,

Micah D. Aug 19, 2015 7:34 AM in response to John Peel
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Aug 19, 2015 7:34 AM in response to John Peel

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.
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by Frösvithomas,

Frösvithomas Sep 30, 2015 11:44 PM in response to John Peel
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Sep 30, 2015 11:44 PM in response to John Peel

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...
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by Eric Root,

Eric Root Oct 1, 2015 9:59 AM in response to Frösvithomas
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Oct 1, 2015 9:59 AM in response to Frösvithomas

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
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by joeyconnick,

joeyconnick Oct 3, 2015 8:27 PM in response to John Peel
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Oct 3, 2015 8:27 PM in response to John Peel

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"
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by Rob4226,

Rob4226 Jan 29, 2016 11:27 PM in response to joeyconnick
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Jan 29, 2016 11:27 PM in response to joeyconnick

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.
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by thundt,

thundt Oct 7, 2016 3:42 PM in response to Sheepylike
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Oct 7, 2016 3:42 PM in response to Sheepylike

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.
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