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Re:"Search in Google" always open Safari instead of default ... by haint_ on Thursday June 20, 2024 @12:16PM (#40740377)
> Maybe since they don't know how to pass a webpage in parameter for every browser in the wild, I suppose they limited it to Safari.

Yeah this is ridiculous, how on earth was that answer accepted?

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Re:"Search in Google" always open Safari instead of default ... by ssahoo on Thursday June 20, 2024 @11:26AM (#40739804)
HN is not a help forum. But letting you know about this as an annoyance that exists in MacOS, for decades that apple refuses to use default browser preference.
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Re:"Search in Google" always open Safari instead of default ... by mysterydip on Thursday June 20, 2024 @12:43PM (#40740658)
Doesn't Apple get income from directing search queries in their browser to Google? Seems like an incentive to not fix the issue.
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Re:"Search in Google" always open Safari instead of default ... by ssahoo on Thursday June 20, 2024 @02:36PM (#40741767)
That could not be significant if a default browser is already set.
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