Is the precompiled version available anywhere? otherwise I suggest using the "Releases" section in github

Hey

Is it possible for the script to detect the new browser 'arc' too?
I notice it does not recognise it in the returned list.

I get these ones;

iterm2
  chrome
* safari
  b99b77c39738484f8a5516125745b0d7
  browser
  torbrowser
  console
  firefox

Kind regards

Jonas

I would like to add Brave as an option to change default browsers.
I found the list of acceptable browsers following links in the readme and it looks like Brave is not on the list.

I'd like to have a CLI option to show the list of available choices

It would be great to be able to add this to a shell script and have a way defaultbrowser wait until the dialog box has been closed before continuing on.

ie:
defaultbrowser firefox &&next item&&defaultbrowser chrome

Thanks in advance.

Ever since I updated to macOS Catalina (currently at 10.15.2 (19C57)) defaultbrowser stopped detecting Chrome if it's the currently active browser. It broke a script I use to toggle between Chrome (which I use at work) & Firefox (which I use at home) as a default browser.

If Firefox is the default, I get this:

$ defaultbrowser
  opera
  gif-brewery-3
  torbrowser
  beta
* firefox
  console
  canary
  dev
  firefoxdeveloperedition
  nightly
  chrome
  browser
  iterm2
  desktop
  chromium
  vivaldi
  safari
  27ef764e1843433bb31581d42d97c90c
  safaritechnologypreview

However, if Chrome is the default, I get this:

$ defaultbrowser          
  opera
  gif-brewery-3
  chrome
  beta
  torbrowser
  console
  canary
  dev
  firefoxdeveloperedition
  nightly
  firefox
  browser
  iterm2
  desktop
  chromium
  vivaldi
  safari
  27ef764e1843433bb31581d42d97c90c
  safaritechnologypreview

Would love to have this browser supported! Haven't tested it but also Webkit nightlies too!

Thanks for the extension.

This is an awesome tool. ❤️

1.1 is the latest release, but it's from 2018, and Homebrew is still on 1.1.

Any chance you can put out a new release?

Thanks!

Hi Margus,
I am putting together an Alfred workflow that I would like to use your defaultbrowser program in. The simplest method to put this together is to include the binary in with the Alfred workflow rather than writing a series of scripts to try to download it/put it in the right location etc etc.

Would you please permit me to create an Alfred Workflow (http://alfredapp.com) providing that I put the attribution to yourself in the README files for the workflow detailing the supporting program you have written?

Many thanks
Stuart

This utility is useful. It would be nice to have convenient installation of it through homebrew. A formula should be quite easy to write.

I was trying to get around the new and annoying "Do you want to keep your default browser 'x' or keep using 'x'?" dialog window that was introduced in OS X Yosemite:

When I execute the following command "defaultbrowser -set safari" or "defaultbrowser -set chrome", I get this error along with the pictured dialog box:

Setting a new default browser failed

Do you know if your tool will be able to bypass the new dialog window at some point?

Thanks,
Morgan

I have tried to use the defaultbrowser, but when trying to set safari as default it just show "Safari is not available as an HTTP handler" Running Big sur 11.4

I wanted to use this in a python script so I was hoping to find a silent way to change my default browser, without the annoying pop-up.

I tried using sudo defaultbrowser -set <browser> but it doesn't set the browser in that case and it's probably a bad idea too.

Just wanted to let you know that the project, as is, doesn't compile under 10.6 but with a couple of changes it works fine.

See
http://apple.stackexchange.com/a/144669/55365

Also wanted to point out that the code only changes HTTP handler and not HTTPS which I'd expect most people would want as well.

Thx.

Hi,

Is there an option to make Arc browser the default browser ?

Regards,
sw

The make install target for this program does not ensure that the bin directory which it installs to is actually there. This led to a complaint from a homebrew maintainer, saying that this should be fixed here. It should be as simple as adding this:

install:
	mkdir -p $(PREFIX)/bin # add this
	cp $(BIN) $(PREFIX)/bin/

I use Google Chrome Incognito. Description Link.

It is a small compiled binary that executes an applescript to open Google Chrome in incognito mode. Any pointers on how I can integrate defaultbrowser to run the Google Chrome Incognito.app? defaultbrowser does not see Google Chrome Incognito.app in the listing.

Thank you.