Showing posts with label firefox. Show all posts
Showing posts with label firefox. Show all posts

Friday, August 21, 2009

Firefox Prism Page Search

Firefox Prism is nice, but it is killing me. I use it primarily for Gmail. Gmail's keyboard shortcuts don't work from time to time. "gi" or Goto Inbox never works. "y" or Archive works most of the time.

I wish they would open up more of the options because this one is driving me nuts.

Wednesday, June 24, 2009

Default Browser in Mac OS X

My current browser is Firefox. I am not a big fan of Safari. I am using Prism until Google Chrome is available for Mac OS X. Whenever I click a link in Gmail (which is a Prism app) it would open up in Safari. Annoying.

So, I opened up Options in Firefox and found the "Check Now" button to set Firefox to be the default browser. Nothing changed. So I went to Options in Safari, to see if I could make it the default browser, thinking I would go back to Firefox and hopefully fix the mess. I was surprised to find a setting that allowed you to choose your default web browser. I selected Firefox. And now links in my Gmail Prism app open up in Firefox.

So, if you are wondering how to make Firefox your default web browser on Mac OS X, just go into Safari's options (on the General tab) and set it. Easy. When you know where to look.