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Opening safari- chrome is my default

BLOND37
BLOND37 Junior Member ✭
in Mac
how come when i go to HELP in 1p it opens in safari even tho CHROME is my default browswr and yes i put tyhe chrome ext in
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  • thightower
    thightower "T-Dog" Agile's Mascot Community Moderator
    [quote name='BLOND37' timestamp='1302395908' post='24457']

    how come when i go to HELP in 1p it opens in safari even tho CHROME is my default browswr and yes i put tyhe chrome ext in

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    Because Safari is installed on every Mac when new Chrome is not. This is to prevent problems and make sure the help files open up for everyone without any configuration.
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  • BLOND37
    BLOND37 Junior Member ✭
    [quote name='thightower' timestamp='1302400288' post='24463']

    Because Safari is installed on every Mac when new Chrome is not. This is to prevent problems and make sure the help files open up for everyone without any configuration.

    [/quote]





    but safari is NOT the default
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  • thightower
    thightower "T-Dog" Agile's Mascot Community Moderator
    edited April 2011
    [quote name='BLOND37' timestamp='1302401002' post='24465']

    but safari is NOT the default

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    That doesnt matter as its not installed on all Macs from the factory the line had to be drawn somewhere. I am sorry there is nothing I can do regarding this. It was a decision from the developers long ago before the chrome browser was publicly released.



    I am not sure how much they get for this type of requests but I think we can add your vote to it. I have heard it asked for a few times <img src='http://forum.agile.ws/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' />
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  • brenty
    brenty
    Indeed. No disrespect to Safari, but it is the Mac equivalent of Internet Explorer: On Windows, the Internet Explorer engine is used for the help system; similarly, the decision was made here at Agile to use Safari on Mac OS X because 1) it is installed on every Mac, 2) it is robust, and 3) we can optimize for it to ensure that our documentation works well for everyone. <img src='http://forum.agile.ws/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' />



    In this sense, it is a "lowest common denominator" situation. Using Safari was the best option at the time, but in 2011 Chrome and now Firefox 4 really shining, perhaps we will reevaluate this in future versions of 1Password.



    As an aside, I try my best to be unbiased. I use both Chrome and Safari pretty much equally, with a bit of Firefox and Opera on the side; and I know that we have team members who use those and other browsers heavily as well, so we will have to be sure we don't start a "holy war" internally over browser support. This is why we try to support as many as possible with extensions, so nobody on the team feels like we're "playing favourites." <img src='http://forum.agile.ws/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=';)' />



    [quote name='thightower' timestamp='1302402436' post='24468']

    I am not sure how much they get for this type of requests but I think we can add your vote to it. I have heard it asked for a few times <img src='http://forum.agile.ws/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/smile.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':)' />

    [/quote]
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