167329 - Mozilla doesn't properly set itself as default browser under Jaguar

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, defect)

Description

[Jeremy Stock]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020907
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en-US; rv:1.0.1) Gecko/20020907

When attempting to set Mozilla 1.1 as default browser under Jaguar, it can be
selected under System Preferences->Web but if you click on a URL it doesn't
actually use Mozilla. Going back into System Preferences->Web doesn't show
Mozilla 1.1 as the selected browser. In my case it defaults to IE every time. I
didn't test to see if this is still an issue in trunk builds, but it works in
the latest 1.0.1 build although this issue did crop up with some 1.0.1 builds
I've tried previously.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1.System Preferences
2.Web
3.Select Mozilla 1.1
4.Close
5. Click on URL
6. Opens with IE (In my case) not Mozilla 1.1
7. Mozilla 1.1 isn't selected when the web preference pane is reopened.


Actual Results:  
Mozilla 1.1 was not set as the default browser

Expected Results:  
Actually set itself as the default browser

Comment 1

[Jeremy Stock]

I was able to get Mozilla 1.1 to stick as the default browser by following the
suggested workaround in the Chimera 0.5 Release Notes Known Issues section. Namely:
removing /Library/Caches/com.apple.LaunchServices.UserCache.csstore and
/Library/Caches/com.apple.LaunchServices.LocalCache.csstore and rebooting.

I'm still curious why this was needed for 1.1 when the recent 1.0.1 build had no
problem changing the default though.

Comment 2

[Greg K.]

*** Bug 169917 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 3

[Jörn Huxhorn]

Mozilla 1.1 was my default-browser on X.2 (I don't remember how I did it... I
guess it just worked because I updated from 10.1.5 instead of doing a clean
install) but now after upgrading to Moz 1.2a I have the same problem described
in this bug.
Isn't this more or less a OS X 10.2-bug? I change the prefs and they are ignored... 

Comment 4

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

There was an OS bug, fixed in 10.2.2 (or .3) that affects this behavior. Retest;
it should work on 10.2.3.

Comment 5

[Greg K.]

WorksForMe using FizzillaMach/2003021203. Resolving WFM.

If you can still reproduce this using a current nightly build on OS X 10.2.3 or
newer, feel free to reopen this bug.