pFiled under: a href="http://www.tuaw.com/category/software/" rel="tag"Software/a, a href="http://www.tuaw.com/category/cool-tools/" rel="tag"Cool tools/a/pp style="text-align: center;"img vspace="4" hspace="4" border="1" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.tuaw.com/media/2008/10/choosyinaction425.jpg" alt="" //p pIt plays out like a a href="http://www.eharlequin.com/"Harlequin Romance/a for many a Mac user (especially web designers and developers): you have a fairly solid relationship with a href="http://www.tuaw.com/tag/Safari/"Safari/a, on a day-to-day basis. Despite your admiration for Safari's beauty and speed, though, the siren song of Firefox frequently seduces you away for extended romps, tempting you with a bounty of desirable extensions and themes. Personally, I've just decided to make my relationship polygamous, Safari for browsing, Firefox for web development. br //p pThe rub, though, is in the definition of the system's default browser; for me, there's no winning that war. I'm constantly launching browsers unintentionally, wishing my Mac would just figure out which application I emwant/em to handle a link with at any given time. a href="http://georgebrock.com/"George Brocklehurst/a has a solution, though, and I'm loving it./p pa href="http://www.choosyosx.com/beta/about"Choosy/a is a Preference Pane (and accompanying helper application) which takes the place of the default browser. When you click a link anywhere outside of a web browser, it takes action based on your preferences: you can have it open the link in whatever browser is running (defaulting to your favorite browser if nothing is open), or you can have it always display a choice of browsers, among other configuration options. I set mine up to display the menu of browser icons every time, thereby ending the unintentional application-launching which stems from my need for multiple browsers./p pChoosy is in beta, and it's got some issues. The biggest for me is its inability to handle multiple displays. That, along with every other question I had about its future development, is already laid out in the a href="http://www.choosyosx.com/beta/roadmap"development roadmap/a. Choosy will be a paid application once it's out of beta, but beta testers who provide George with an email address will be getting a code for a beta tester discount. If your own browser infidelity is causing problems for you, a href="http://www.choosyosx.com/beta/about"give Choosy a try/a./p pFair warning, by the way: If you install a href="http://www.tuaw.com/2008/10/26/screaming-fast-mozilla-browser-minefield-gives-a-glimpse-of-fire/"Minefield/a, you'll lose Firefox from your Choosy browser list until you uninstall it. The ability to customize the browser list is on the roadmap (and there is a workaround -- editing the CFBundleIdentifier in Firefox's Info.plist to a unique value -- but that's not for the fainthearted), so hopefully that will soon be a non-issue./p pemThanks Laurie/embr //ph6 style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"/h6a href=http://www.choosyosx.com/beta/aboutRead/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.tuaw.com/2008/10/28/choosy-your-new-default-browser/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.tuaw.com/forward/1354596/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.tuaw.com/2008/10/28/choosy-your-new-default-browser/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/abr /br /pmap name="google_ad_map_16-1354596"area shape="rect" href="http://imageads.googleadservices.com/pagead/imgclick/16-1354596?pos=0" coords="1,2,367,28" /area shape="rect" href="http://services.google.com/feedback/abg" coords="384,10,453,23" //mapimg usemap="#google_ad_map_16-1354596" border="0" src="http://imageads.googleadservices.com/pagead/ads?format=468x30_aff_imgamp;client=ca-pub-3546992251556849amp;channel=21amp;output=pngamp;cuid=16-1354596amp;url=http://www.tuaw.com/2008/10/28/choosy-your-new-default-browser/" //p pa href="http://feeds.tuaw.com/~a/weblogsinc/tuaw?a=TiAPXC"img src="http://feeds.tuaw.com/~a/weblogsinc/tuaw?i=TiAPXC" border="0"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.tuaw.com/~f/weblogsinc/tuaw?a=7HjOm"img src="http://feeds.tuaw.com/~f/weblogsinc/tuaw?i=7HjOm" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.tuaw.com/~f/weblogsinc/tuaw?a=GlG1m"img src="http://feeds.tuaw.com/~f/weblogsinc/tuaw?i=GlG1m" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.tuaw.com/~r/weblogsinc/tuaw/~4/434736676" height="1" width="1"/