Google Chrome hijacked File/Share/Email This Page in Safari 9.0.1

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Google Chrome hijacked File/Share/Email This Page in Safari 9.0.1

This concerns OS X El Capitan version 10.11.1 on a late 2009 iMac.

The problem is that it has become impossible for Safari 9.0.1 to “share” a webpage by emailing it via Apple Mail (9.1). When “File”/“Share”/“Email This Page” is selected on Safari, Google Chrome launches and opens a webmail account. Heretofore, when “File”/“Share”/“Email This Page” was selected on Safari, Apple Mail would activate.

Google seems to be co-opting the “Mail” extension, because navigating to Apple menu/System preferences/Extensions/Share Menu brings up a list of extensions that may be checked or unchecked. The extension entitled “Mail” is shown but it may not be selected or unchecked; it is dimmed and permanently checked; and the icon for the “Mail” extension is the Google Chrome icon.

Could it be that the inalterable “Mail” extension interferes with Apple Mail 9.1?

iMac, OS X Yosemite (10.10.1), Apple wireless keyboard

Posted on Dec 8, 2015 12:33 PM

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dominic23

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Dec 8, 2015 1:01 PM in response to myVAcase

Is Mail selected as "Default email reader"?

Mail > Preferences > General > Default email reader:

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201607

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myVAcase Author

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Dec 8, 2015 1:13 PM in response to dominic23

The Mail > Preferences > General > Default email reader was set to Chrome.

How did that happen?

Selecting Mail in Mail > Preferences > General > Default email reader, quitting Mail, and relaunching Mail did not work to change the default.

However, by scrolling down to "Select..." in Mail > Preferences > General > Default email reader and navigating to Mail in the Finder seems to have effectuated the desired change.

Thank you.

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