299833 - deer park cannot be 'default web browser' if firefox is also present.

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Firefox :: Shell Integration, defect)

Description

[jonathan chetwynd]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050531 Firefox/1.0+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8b2) Gecko/20050531 Firefox/1.0+

I recently installed 'deer park alpha1' whilst also continuing to use a recent
build of firefox.

I repeatedly tried to set deer park as the default web browser.
however the preferences which are inside 'safari' continuously reset to firefox.

The only solution I found was to place firefox in the trash. 

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Asaf Romano (gone)]

That's an OS issue, the relevant system API (that's, Launch Services) registers
the default handler per its bundle ID which is always the same for two instances
of the same application.

-> invalid.

Comment 2

[jonathan chetwynd]

Thankd mano, this issue wasn't clear to me, and still isn't quite.

Safari shows separate icons and names for deer park and firefox.

It's not clear from your explanation why foxfire is always selected.

Why is firefox always the default?

Comment 3

[Wayne Woods]

It's an annoying OS X bug that has existed since at least 10.2. Possibly always.
I've asked Apple about it several times but never seen any kind of address of
the issue.

Despite the fact that the OS can differentiate between any two applications, the
launch services that control default browser seem to store the "bundle id",
which could be the same across many different builds of the same browser (and
Deer Park and Firefox are of course really the same thing). It doesn't seem to
care about application name or path or anything. So when it later goes to locate
the browser by bundle id, it can pick an entirely different build to the one you
did.

You can reproduce this in Safari as well. Just duplicate Safari, and call the
new one "Safari2". You'll find that no matter which one you pick as your default
browser, it'll always revert back to the one of the two that it seems to prefer.

Comment 4

[Wayne Woods]

Do you think there'd be any value in moving this over to evangelism? If there's
a problem on the OS side, who usually handles it?