Apple query - Get Info facility
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Apple query - Get Info facility
My default browser is SWRIron but sometimes I want to open something in another browser - like when my free credits fro Telegraph Online have run out. I drag the URL icon onto the desktop and then right click to get Get Info.
Now if I click on Open With in the Get Info menu, it give me options for other browsers, so I click on, say, Opera, thus:
The little icon has changed to Opera but the large icon has not. Now if I close Get Info and click on the URL icon on the desktop, it still opens in SRWIron. And you will notice that, despite the fact that my default browser is Iron, the icon stays as Safari. Can anyone explain this?
I have checked both Safari and Finder preferences but there is nothing relevant in either.
Now if I click on Open With in the Get Info menu, it give me options for other browsers, so I click on, say, Opera, thus:
The little icon has changed to Opera but the large icon has not. Now if I close Get Info and click on the URL icon on the desktop, it still opens in SRWIron. And you will notice that, despite the fact that my default browser is Iron, the icon stays as Safari. Can anyone explain this?
I have checked both Safari and Finder preferences but there is nothing relevant in either.
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Just to update: This has been a problem, for a few users, with OSX back to at least 2010 and is not confined to Mavericks. No-one has yet found a solution. There you go . . . !
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Sunnyjohn,
Have you contemplated using Applescript as a workaround ? e.g.
(I've tested your original method on my computer and indeed, doesn't seem to work, I've filed a bug report on RADAR for you)
Have you contemplated using Applescript as a workaround ? e.g.
tell application "Firefox"
activate
open location "http://www.pprune.org"
end tell
activate
open location "http://www.pprune.org"
end tell
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Thanks for this, Mixture, and for filing the report. I am not familiar with Applescript so have just had a play with it but it clearly needs a little more of my time to get my head around the commands and how they work on different applications, folders and files. I'll work at it this week. Thanks for the suggestion. There is an extra command on the Get Info pane. By holding down the Command key when clicking on 'Open with', the menu command changes to 'Always open with'. However, it still does not work!
