97975 - Mozilla not a choice for `Default Web browser' in Internet control panel

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(SeaMonkey :: UI Design, defect, P5)

Description

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

Build: 2001083008, Mac OS 9.1

To reproduce:
1.  Install Mozilla.
2.  Open the Internet control panel.
3.  From the `Web' tab, open the `Default Web browser' popup menu.

What should happen:
*   Mozilla should be one of the options.

What actually happens:
*   It's not.

Comment 1

[Paul Chen]

Talked to Dagley, he thinks the Internet control panel just has a hard coded
list of known browsers. He could be wrong. At any rate, would be nice, but you
can always use "Select..."

p5, minor, and future

Comment 2

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

Just for interest's sake, `Netscape 6.2' isn't a choice either (though 
`Netscape Communicator' 4.79 is). Are you sure this bug is `minor'? :-)

Comment 3

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

Why would Mozilla or Netscape 6 be one of the options when it's not installed by 
Apple?

Comment 4

[Hixie (not reading bugmail)]

This isn't really "minor" if it is affecting our market share...

Comment 5

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

Simon, Opera isn't installed by Apple, yet it manages to insert itself into 
this menu just fine.

Comment 6

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

Hmm, I see nothing in the Internet Config API that allows one to add a new 
browser. I wonder how opera does it. Anyone want to compare a before-and-after of 
the 'Internet Preferences' file on installing Opera?

Comment 7

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

trudelle to triage

Comment 8

[Peter Trudelle]

->major/nsbeta1.  I think we need to be in that list, but I don't currently have
a Mac engineer to fix this, so adding helpwanted keyword.

Comment 9

[Peter Trudelle]

nsbeta1+ per Nav triage team, ->sdagley/moz1.0 since this may require some
evangelism.

Comment 10

[Steve Dagley]

Opera is not actually on the list of 'known' browsers for the 'Default Web
browser' popup (AFAICT only IE is on this list).  It will appear on the list if
you manually select it or make it the default browser when it asks you during
launch.  If you switch to another browser though it will be gone from the list
the next time you bring up the Internet prefs panel.  This bug is actually two
parts - add a similiar 'Make Mozilla/N6 your default broswer?' dialog to
Mozilla/N6 and some evangelism to get Mozilla/N6 added to the default list.

Comment 11

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

all, to remind me to check on both mac 9.x and 10.x...

Comment 12

[timeless]

se: please don't. Macintosh:All includes Mac Linux and Mac NetBSD.  At some 
point we might allow multiselect, but for now i'd suggest using the status 
whiteboard.

Comment 13

[Alistair McMillan]

To add Mozilla to the browser list on Mac OS X, you need edit the file
"DefaultHelperApps.plist" at
"/System/Library/PreferencePanes/Internet.prefPane/Contents/Resources/English.lproj".

More detail here...
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=200110120742326

However although this should work for adding the browser to the list, it may or
may not let you change the default browser.

This may be something to with the key "IEAsDefaultNoBotherPrefKey", in the file
"~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.internetconfig.plist".  I haven't managed to
find out for sure one way or another.

Hope this is of some help.

Comment 14

[Steve Dagley]

Attachment: Text for "Make Mozilla default browser?" query

This is the UI portion of the patch to have Mozilla set as the default browser.

Comment 15

[Jaime Rodriguez, Jr.]

Steve - Pls land the string changes (only) tonight. thanks!

Comment 16

[Steve Dagley]

As requested the string changes were landed on the branch.  Final patch forthcoming.

Comment 17

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

> Opera is not actually on the list of 'known' browsers for the 'Default Web
> browser' popup ... If you switch to another browser though it will be gone from
> the list the next time you bring up the Internet prefs panel.

That's not correct. I have *never* chosen Opera to be my default browser, but
it's still in the list of known browsers.

> This bug is actually two parts - add a similiar 'Make Mozilla/N6 your default
> broswer?' dialog to Mozilla/N6

That's not correct either -- adding the alert is bug 112822.

Comment 18

[Steve Dagley]

Since this is a Mac Classic bug dispatching to the wilds of [e-mail].
 Perhaps a new bug is in order for OS X but we're already a choice in the Web
tab of the Internet prefs pane in System Preferences.app as of 10.2 so it's less
of an issue.

Comment 19

[Frankie]

*** Bug 112822 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 20

[Frankie]

OS X default browser is bug 167329.

Mozilla CFM build is dead.
http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=avkj4k%24ihs2%40ripley.netscape.com