>You will need Safari and Mail to reside on your system, whether you use >them or not, if you want to change your default email and browser apps in >the future."
Not necessarily. For both Panther and Jaguar users (from this week's Tid-Bits): >Internet Preferences -- Finally, I want to point to a bit of >reorganization that has prompted several people I know to scratch their >heads. Under Jaguar, you could change the default Web browser and email >client by going to the Internet preference pane. In Panther, however, the >Internet preference pane is replaced by the .Mac preference pane. > >Instead, in a move that I'm sure only makes sense in the marketing >hallways at Apple, you must configure your default email and Web >applications from within Safari and Mail. Launch Mail, go to its >preferences, click the General icon, and choose an application from the >Default Email Reader pop-up menu. Similarly, a Default Web Browser pop-up >menu appears in Safari's General preferences. > >What if you want to configure helper applications for other protocols? >Turn to Monkeyfood's freeware More Internet preference pane, which uses >Internet Config to provide a single interface to all your protocol >helpers, something that was previously accessible most easily through >Internet Explorer's preference in the Protocol Helpers pane. > ><http://www.monkeyfood.com/software/moreinternet/> What, you don't read Tid-Bits? You're missing a lot! See www.tidbits.com --- Scott T. Hards President HobbyLink Japan (www.hlj.com)
