On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 06:44:02PM -0500, Josh Kuperman wrote: > 1. How do I completely excise MSIE from my system. After comparing it > with the choices of NetScape, Mozilla, and Omniweb, lynx, w3m, I've > decided to go with the MacOSX Mozilla? I can't seem to even find > launch services on my system. I'll lose the ability to run a few > games on java dependent web sites -- which is MSIE's only plus.
Don't do this. MSIE is the only way to edit certain Internet Config preferences because Apple didn't see fit to include decent editing functionality with Mac OS X, similar to that provided by the Internet Config application, and the Internet control panel in Mac OS 8.5 and later. > 2. Can I set this so that it will use other applications besides the > OS X defaults? Can I make it start up X-windows and chose an X > application? OS X already sort of does this for classic apps. Not really. LaunchServices sends Apple events to a browser, and X Window applications don't (perhaps can't, either) respond to Apple events. You could certainly write a bridge application if you're determined to use an X11 browser, but I haven't found much to recommend any of them over the available Mac native browsers. Also there'd be no support for plugins, Java, consulting Internet Config for suffix/protocol mappings, or many of the other Mac-specific pieces supported by IE, Mozilla, Opera, OmniWeb, iCab, etc. There's a program called Vince which will let you reset your helper application preferences. If all you need is to reset your preferred browser (http/https protocol helpers), you can do this from System Preferences. -- =Nicholas Riley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | <http://www.uiuc.edu/ph/www/njriley> Pablo Research Group, Department of Computer Science and Medical Scholars Program, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign _______________________________________________ Fink-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-users
