Hi All, About a month ago I posted a reply to David Muller's request for help with setting the preferred application for hyperlinks. At the time I assumed that the problem was the lack of a preference pane [similar to a control panel in System 7] to edit the protocol [http, https, ftp, smtp, etc.] to application assignments, in addition to the file type [.txt, .pdf, etc.] and MIME type mappings, the same way that "Internet Config" used to. It has recently come to my attention that this is actually handled very differently in OS X. Please take a look at this web page <http://tinyurl.com/2u9k6> and see why "RCDefaultApp" is being recommended as a more complete solution over "MisFox" or "More Internet".
The gist of it is that the protection assumed by the special ownership, group, and permissions given to the "Utilities" folder can be circumvented because Mac OS X handles attaching a volume--along with 'help' and several other activities that don't show up as an internet configuration preference--as a network protocol. Peace, paul -- Paul F. Henegan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ========================================================================= on 16.04.2004 09:28, David Muller at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Somehow Explorer has just elbowed Safari out of the way and > insists in opening all my weblinks. > > I've looked at changing the application to open file types, but I can't > link to a specific file type, since weblinks are embedded and don't > have a particular extension. > Hi David, You need to reset the preference for protocol helper, not the file or MIME type. Unfortunately Apple still has not seen fit to provide OS X with one-stop settings that "Internet Config" once afforded, yet the next best thing is Alexander Clauss's "MisFox" available here: <http://www.clauss-net.de/misfox/misfox.html> -- SuperMacs is sponsored by <http://lowendmac.com/> and... Small Dog Electronics http://www.smalldog.com | Refurbished Drives | Service & Replacement Parts [EMAIL PROTECTED] | & CDRWs on Sale! | Support Low End Mac <http://lowendmac.com/lists/support.html> SuperMacs list info: <http://lowendmac.com/supermacs/list.shtml> --> AOL users, remove "mailto:"; Send list messages to: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For digest mode, email: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subscription questions: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/supermacs%40mail.maclaunch.com/> --------------------------------------------------------------- >The Think Different Store http://www.ThinkDifferentStore.com ---------------------------------------------------------------
