Firefox as default Web browser on Mac OS X

  2011-03-11      153 words, 1 minutes

• browser
• default
• firefox
• osx
• safari
• web

It’s been a few weeks that Safari bugs me… It’s damn slow when starting (with 5 tabs), when a tabs reloading I can’t use any of the other… I don’t know exactly what happens but even last update (v5.0.4) doesn’t solve anything. I thought it might be my installation but Firefox has no issue at all.
So it’s time to make Firefox my default OS X web browser.

Configure the default web browser from Safari:

• Start Safari ;
• Open the Preferences window ;
• Go to the General section ;
• Select your Default web browser.

Make sure Firefox will tell you if it’s not the default web browser:

• Start Firefox ;
• Open the Preferences window ;
• Go to the Advanced section ;
• Select the General sub-section;
• Check the Always check (..) if Firefox is the default browser (...) option ;
• Click the Check now button to verify your previous Safari modification.

That’s All Folks!