Misfox Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

MisFox gives you control of helper apps

by Michael Rose (Jul 17th, 2007)

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 ...

TUAW Tip: Change your default browser or default mail client without launching Safari or Mail

by Laurie A. Duncan (Nov 7th, 2006)

Scott may have ranted about this subject before and it's very possible that I have responded with these suggestions before, but since he gets a do-over, I get one too! I agree with Scott that Apple is just plain wrong in making its users launch Safari and Mail in order to change their default to ...