To add a little more info to the recent topic regarding setting the default browser, there is a little application "MisFox" which works similarly on OSX as "InternetConfig" did on previous systems, i.e. the user can set all the default internet applications, file mappings and protocol helpers as in the old days, and as it should be. So in stead of "Mail" you can set "PowerMail" as your default mail app, just to mention one. Extract from the MisFox ReadMe:
MisFox 1.2.1 (Missing Internet Settings For X) ---------------------------------------------- What's MisFox doing ------------------- The application is only useful for MacOSX. Under MacOSX several internet settings which were available under MacOS 8 and 9 are still present and are still used by most internet applications, but they are no longer accessible by the user. In MacOSX 10.3 Apple has even removed the settings for the default Browser and the default Mail application from the system preferences. If these settings gets corrupt for some reason there's no easy way to repair these settings anymore. 'MisFox' makes some of the most important internet settings accessible again. MisFox will show the "default internet applications", all the "file mappings" settings and the "protocol helpers". You can inspect these settings, but you can also edit, delete and create new items for these settings. The "Default Applications" will define which application will be launched if an URL of a certain kind will be opened. For example when opening a "mailto" URL in the finder or if you click a "mailto" link in the web browser, the default email application is launched so it can handle this URL. The "File Mappings" are used for many tasks. First they will translate the "content-type" and file extensions which are used in the Internet into the file type and creator codes which are used on the Mac. Second they do define what to do with files of a certain file type after they are downloaded from the internet (for example they define that ".sit" files should be processed by Stuffit Expander). "Protocol Helpers" are used to find the right application to handle certain internet protocols. So a web browser will use the protcol helper settings to find a news reader when clicking on a "news:"; link in order to open this link. Since MacOSX 10.2 there's no way to define the default news reader in the system settings anymore. So you can do this in MisFox now. ======================== I don't remember where I found this useful app, but try searching the usual software-sites, like Versiontracker. Or if it seamed to have disappeared, I can mail it over to those who needs it. File size is 600 K. -- Damienn _______________________________________________________________________ Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. - unknown _______________________________________________________________________
