Strange. For what it's worth, the exact command line used by Flex Builder to launch Safari is:
/usr/bin/open -a %1 %2 where %1 is the full path to the browser specified by the Eclipse browser preferences, and %2 is the URL of your app. So, it is normally this for Safari: /usr/bin/open -a /Applications/Safari.app/Content/MacOS/Safari YOUR_URL_GOES_HERE Try that from a shell script (without the URL on the end), and see if Safari opens. - Mike --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com, Jurgen Beck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hey Mike, > > Thanks for the response! > > This is happening on Mac OS X with Flex Builder 2.0.1. The system's > default browser is set to Firefox. For the Flex debugging I'd like to > use Safari though. I've been running into some caching issues with > Firefox that I have documented in another post, thus the reason to use > Safari. Safari is at version 3.0.3. > > Firefox and Safari are installed in their default locations > (Applications folder). > > I've done a little bit more testing with the External Web Browser > settings in Preferences and it seems to me that Flex Builder is having > difficulties locating the Safari browser instance and is defaulting to > the system default browser for debugging, which in my case is Firefox. > This, even though the help documentation starts up in Safari when the > selection is set to use Safari as the external browser. > > So, the question then would be what to specify for the Location and > Parameters settings in Edit External Web Browser when setting up the > Safari entry. > > Jurgen > > > Mike Morearty wrote: > > > > Hi Jurgen, > > > > Carlos was correct -- changing the value in Window > Preferences > > > General > Web Browser is how you change what browser Flex Builder uses > > to debug. If that doesn't work for you, then something is going > > wrong, but I am not aware of any bugs in that area. > > > > There is no per-project setting that is in any way related to this. > > The only per-project setting is, what URL is used when launching; but > > this has no effect at all on our choice of which browser to use. > > > > Just curious: What operating system are you on? What is your system > > default browser, and what browser are you trying to force Flex Builder > > to use? Is there anything nonstandard about how you installed any of > > your browsers -- e.g. did you install Firefox into a nonstandard > > location, or anything like that? > > > > I can't really think of much that would be going wrong here, but with > > more info, I might be able to take a guess. > > > > - Mike Morearty > > Adobe Flex Builder team > > http://www.morearty.com/blog <http://www.morearty.com/blog> > > > > --- In flexcoders@yahoogroups.com > > <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com>, Jurgen Beck <jurgen@> wrote: > > > > > > Thanks, but that doesn't seem to have an effect on the browser that the > > > debugger uses. This seems to only affect the browser use for the help > > > documentation. > > > > > > I'm sure I'm missing something. > > > > > > Jurgen > > > > > > carlos m wrote: > > > > In FB click on the Window >> Preferences >> General >> Web Browser. > > > > > > > > HTH, > > > > > > > > Carlos > > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ---- > > > > From: Jurgen Beck <jurgen@> > > > > To: flexcoders@yahoogroups.com <mailto:flexcoders%40yahoogroups.com> > > > > Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2007 10:06:39 AM > > > > Subject: Re: [flexcoders] Flex Builder 2.0.1: Change Browser for > > Debugging > > > > > > > > I asked this yesterday, but I'm not sure if I missed any possible > > > > responses to it. So here is another quick summary: > > > > > > > > How can we change the browser that FB uses for debugging? > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > > > Jurgen > > > > > > > > Jurgen Beck wrote: > > > > > > > >> Even though there is a FB Preferences setting for using a browser > > when > > > >> Web pages are opened, this seems to mostly be targeting the > > display of > > > >> help documentation. > > > >> > > > >> If we need to change the specific browser we want to open when FB > > starts > > > >> a debugging process, it seems that the only way of doing this is by > > > >> changing the system's default browser. > > > >> > > > >> Now, here is the strange part: > > > >> > > > >> When starting a new Flex project, it seems that the default > > browser at > > > >> that time gets stored into the project preferences somewhere. Even if > > > >> the system default browser is being changed, the Flex project debug > > > >> process seems to be starting the browser that was the default > > browser at > > > >> the time the project was created and not the current default browser. > > > >> > > > >> So, the question then is, how we can change the browser that a debug > > > >> session for a specific project uses? I'd love to be able to set > > this as > > > >> a preference, either per project, or for Flex Builder in general. > > > >> > > > >> Can anyone shed some light on this issue? > > > >> > > > >> Thanks, > > > >> > > > >> Jurgen > > > >> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------- > > > > Choose the right car based on your needs. Check out Yahoo! 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