MisFox gives you control of helper apps

If you remember the good old days of OS 9... well, maybe they weren't all that good, but at least it was easy (via the Internet control panel) to set all your helper applications, which would launch whenever you hit a mailto: or ftp: link. Nowadays you've got to dig into Mail.app just to change your default email application, and that's just a pain in the neck. What can solve this sticky situation? MisFox can.

Just revised to a Universal Binary, system preference panel-savvy, version 2-iy version 2, MisFox lets you set your default helpers and file mappings for all sorts of URLs, extensions and protocols. I've used it since way back and there's nothing handier for getting your auto-launching ducks in a row. And free? Such a deal.

Update: For those who asked about setting Google Reader as the default handler for RSS feeds (as indicated in the alluring yet somewhat misleading screenshot above), see here.

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Josh

Whenever I try to set the magnet protocol to Azureus, it doesn't work. More Internet says "there was an error adding that handler," MisFox lets me pick Azureus, but when I click Choose it shows the handler as blank... hell, RCDefaultApps won't even allow me to ADD a protocol at all. This is weird and confounding.

Anybody had similar experiences, or have any ideas? Thanks!

:-j

November 24 2007 at 6:43 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Michael Rose

Paul, Jimbo, Matt, muzo -- you CAN set Google Reader as your default feed reader by using Reader Notifier:

http://www.tuaw.com/2007/07/18/tuaw-tip-setting-google-reader-as-your-default-rss-handler/

Sorry for getting everyone all riled up.

July 18 2007 at 11:14 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

paul

The screenshot is somewhat misleading? Are you kidding me? The only reason I bothered to download and install this thing is because I thought I could set Google Reader with it.

July 17 2007 at 11:23 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Michael Rose

#7-9: I'm running an older version of this:

http://www.tuaw.com/2006/10/30/google-reader-notifier-for-mac-os-x/

It's since been renamed to "Reader Notifier" to avoid confusion. Note that the screenshot is somewhat misleading -- although Reader Notifier will show in the helper list, you can't actually set it to your default feed reader. :-(

July 17 2007 at 5:54 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Eliot

I used More Internet to fix my aim: links
http://www.monkeyfood.com/software/moreInternet/

so it would open iChat instead of Adium. I know I found it the first time via TUAW, but these helper apps are hard as hell to properly Google.

July 17 2007 at 4:47 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

muzo

how did you get google reader.app on there?

July 17 2007 at 4:38 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Matt

How do you make it select Google Reader as your default RSS reader? My only choice is Safari.

July 17 2007 at 2:58 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

Jimbo

What is Google Reader.app? I'm searching on macupdate for it and can find nothing...

July 17 2007 at 2:56 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down Reply

R. Cabell

Great idea, stupid name.