Re: The Best Browser for Vista

"Sandman" <mr@xxxxxxxxxxx> stated in post
mr-2A4CEF.10364613042008@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on 4/13/08 1:36 AM:

In article <U5KdnWCMgcCwQJ3VnZ2dnUVZ_gydnZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxx>,
"Hasta La Vista" <noemail@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Me: "Vista has granted your request."

Me: " Open the Default Programs control panel. Pick Set Program Access and
Computer Defaults."

Me: "From there you can set your default web browser among other things."

Me "Doesn't OSX have anything like that? "

Sandman: "Yep, it does."

OSX doesn't have anything like Windows Set Program Access and Computer
Defaults

Yes, it does. It has a built-in, system-wide, function to set
applications for specific protocols. It's just not placed where you
want it to be, so you want to disregard it based on its placement.

barring a third party solution, and the browser requesting to be
made the default doesn't count as the same thing.

The function I am talking about is not "the browser requesting to be
made the default".

http://sandman.net/files/browserprefs.png

It's a system-wide setting.

Sandman:
I see the Safari preferences to be a form of control panel,
especially given the fact that you don't have anything else
called "control panel" in OSX (it's typical windows
terminology).

Snit:
If you are looking for something similar to the concept of
the Windows Control Panel on OS X you should look to the
System Preferences - not to an applications preferences.

Classic Mac OS used the term "Control Panel" as well - and
they were similar to OS X's System Preference panes. They
were not similar to the idea of application preferences. No
OS that I know of calls is *application* preferences "control
panels".

Perhaps you got confused, Sandman, by Apple's absurd idea of
putting the system setting of browser preference in an
application preferences panel. Still, you made a mistake...
something my noting was enough to have Steve Mackay call me a
liar over.

Pathetic.

How much trolling will you and Mackay do over this, Sandman? That, really,
is the only question that remains on this issue.



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Satan lives for my sins... now *that* is dedication!

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