233871 - Firefox: No "Set Default Browser" option in Mac OS X

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox :: Shell Integration, enhancement)

Description

[Todd]

User-Agent:       
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040206 Firefox/0.8

This is similar to bug 218271 (which is for Camino) about creating a Default Web
Browser preference. In Mac OS 10.2 (and possibly earlier versions), setting a
default browser was through Apple Menu > System Preferences > Internet. In OS
10.3, Apple has somewhat hidden that feature inside the Safari preferences. (I
only found that preference by stumbling on it.) It would be nice to have a
button in Firefox Preferences to set Firefox as the default browser, like in IE.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Jonathan Louie]

confirmed.  Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.7b)
Gecko/20040308 Firefox/0.8.0+

there is such a button on windows in tools->options->general, but is missing
from analogous place in firefox->preferences->general.

Comment 2

[Tracy Walker [:tracy]]

This option is also missing from Linux preferences.

Comment 3

[Mike Connor [:mconnor]]

please don't morph bugs like this.  adding shellservice hooks for Mac OS X is
utterly and completely separate from adding hooks for GNOME.  If there isn't a
bug on this already, please file it in OS Integration.

Comment 4

[Dave Miller [:justdave]]

mscott has marked the equivalent bug in Thunderbird as blocking 1.0mac, and
stated on the bug that it will be done in Firefox first, so marking dependencies
appropriately.

Comment 5

[Marcia Knous [:marcia]]

Nominating this for 1.1, the Thunderbird bug is already targeted for 1.1.  As a
Mac user I would really like to see this happen for 1.1.

Comment 6

[Asaf Romano (gone)]

patch on bug 274374

Comment 7

[Asaf Romano (gone)]

fixed.

Comment 8

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

*** Bug 232048 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***