From bug #23496: "(and Mac, if Mac supports such a concept) With Netscape 4.x, the installer sets Netscape as default when it is run, but after that you can't really do anything to set Netscape back as the default if another browser install (e.g. IE) maliciously steals the crown (*cough*). It'd be cool if Mozilla allowed you to re-specify that it was default. Advanced users can spend their time digging through the registry etc, but most of us would like to click a button :) cc:'ing Cathy, who is one of probably a number of users (including myself) who would like to see this implemented in a visible way at some point. :)" <snip> --- The Mac OS does in fact have the ability to have default applications for certain file types, so, I'm filing a bug to implement this on Mac (per Ben's comment.)

Note that it's very important the installer not make this change without first asking the user. I noticed a couple of times that my browser preference had been changed without asking. We shouldn't make the same mistake here.

Just as important: don't ask the user this on every launch. Let them decide to use N6 while retaining IE as default, if that's what they really want. We should only ask them once, unless they opt-in to being asked every time.

nav triage team: Don't think we'll get to this for beta1, marking nsbeta1-, reassigning to pchen

Marking nsbeta1- bugs as future to get off the radar.

moving Windows Integration [formerly Desktop Integration] bugs to PaulW as qa contact.

-> default assignee

->law/future, cc jag

Changing qa contact to me, as I am working on these now ;-)

*** Bug 116964 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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In MacOS X 10.2.x and later, the default browser is set in the Safari preference dialog. AFAIK, thats how it is supposed to be in the future. It would be nice, though, to have this option in Mozilla, too. But: different OS - different bug.

Duping this against the now fixed bug 433254.