MacBook Pro can't open in Firefox, always goes to Safari
I have a MacBook Pro - OS X, 10.8.2, and want the default browser to be Firefox, not Safari.
The consistent advice is: Safari/Preferences/General and showing Firefox as the default browser. I have done this, and when I start up I keep getting Safari, not Firefox. I can then click on Firefox from the Launchpad and it comes up and works fine; I would just like to avoid the extra steps I take to quit Safari and start Firefox. The Apple representative with whom I spoke took me through the above steps and was baffled that it didn't work. She suggested that I contact Firefox, so that's what I am doing. Please help. There must be some setting I have inadvertently done to myself.
Thanks. Rob Jones
Chosen solution
Hello robertsonjones, quit Safari and then go to Hard drive > Users > Your Username > Library > Preferences > Trash the com.apple.Safari.plist
or go from : Finder > Go menu > Go To Folder type ~/Library/Preferences click Go scroll find com.apple.Safari.plist , and Trash the folder.
this is in case that safari preferences are not saved
thank you
Additional System Details
Installed Plug-ins
- Shockwave Flash 11.5 r502
- The QuickTime Plugin allows you to view a wide variety of multimedia content in web pages. For more information, visit the QuickTime Web site.
- Microsoft Office for Mac SharePoint Browser Plug-in
- Displays Java applet content, or a placeholder if Java is not installed.
- The Flip4Mac WMV Plugin allows you to view Windows Media content using QuickTime.
- 5.1.10411.0
Application
- User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.8; rv:17.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/17.0
More Information
Chosen Solution
Hello robertsonjones, quit Safari and then go to Hard drive > Users > Your Username > Library > Preferences > Trash the com.apple.Safari.plist
or go from : Finder > Go menu > Go To Folder type ~/Library/Preferences click Go scroll find com.apple.Safari.plist , and Trash the folder.
this is in case that safari preferences are not saved
thank you
Helpful Reply
Solved my problem!! Thanks!!