Re: Default browser field in preferences

From	Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.system
Subject	Re: Default browser field in preferences
Date	2016-11-03 02:46 +0000
Organization	People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates
Message-ID	<e7vmooF6jd6U2@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
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On 2016-11-03, Ken Springer <wordworks@greeleynet.com> wrote:
> Just discovered the field is blank, and no amount of clicking seems to 
> make a difference.
>
> Searching the web so far has yielded just one possible fix, and that 
> involves installing Chrome, which I'd rather not do.

I suspect the "fix" you are referring to is to set *Chrome* as the
default browser rather than *any* browser of your choice, which is
obviously not what you want.

> Not sure what info to post here that may be of help, the OS is in my 
> signature.
>
> How do I fix this?

It could be that the property list (plist) preference file that stores
the default browser is corrupt or malformed for some reason. To check
it, open a terminal window (/Applications/Utilities/Terminal), enter
this command (all on one line), and let us know what it says:

/usr/bin/plutil -lint
~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.LaunchServices/com.apple.launchservices.secure.plist

I would check the property list with the above command first to ensure
it isn't corrupt before trying this, because attempting to set the
preference with a corrupt file may have unpredictable results; but there
is an open source command-line tool that lets you set the default
browser outside of System Preferences:

<https://github.com/kerma/defaultbrowser>

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JR

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Default browser field in preferences Ken Springer <wordworks@greeleynet.com> - 2016-11-02 20:16 -0600
  Re: Default browser field in preferences Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-11-03 02:46 +0000
    Re: Default browser field in preferences Ken Springer <wordworks@greeleynet.com> - 2016-11-03 07:35 -0600
  Re: Default browser field in preferences nmassello@yahoo.com (Neill Massello) - 2016-11-03 13:46 -0600
    Re: Default browser field in preferences Ken Springer <wordworks@greeleynet.com> - 2016-11-03 18:53 -0600
      Re: Default browser field in preferences nmassello@yahoo.com (Neill Massello) - 2016-11-03 19:08 -0600
      Re: Default browser field in preferences Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-11-04 01:12 +0000
      Re: Default browser field in preferences Ken Springer <wordworks@greeleynet.com> - 2016-11-03 20:45 -0600
      Re: Default browser field in preferences Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2016-11-04 18:21 +0000
      Re: Default browser field in preferences Ken Springer <wordworks@greeleynet.com> - 2016-11-04 20:21 -0600
        Re: Default browser field in preferences Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2016-11-05 04:18 +0000
          Re: Default browser field in preferences Ken Springer <wordworks@greeleynet.com> - 2016-11-06 20:57 -0700

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