{"id":31304,"date":"2021-01-13T15:31:43","date_gmt":"2021-01-13T20:31:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=31304"},"modified":"2022-06-23T17:44:48","modified_gmt":"2022-06-23T21:44:48","slug":"how-to-change-your-default-web-browser-on-big-sur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/01\/13\/how-to-change-your-default-web-browser-on-big-sur\/","title":{"rendered":"Setting Your Default Web Browser on Big Sur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lapcatsoftware.com\/articles\/default-browser-bs.html\">Jeff Johnson<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/lapcatsoftware.com\/articles\/default-browser-bs.html\"><p>macOS 11 Big Sur has a bug that prevents some apps from appearing in the &ldquo;Default web browser&rdquo; menu in the General pane of System Preferences, which of course makes it difficult to set one of those apps as your default web browser.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>The developer API for changing your default web browser still works correctly on Big Sur. My workaround is to call that API from the <code>python<\/code> command-line tool[&#8230;]<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>It&rsquo;s important to keep in mind that this workaround does not fix the &ldquo;Default web browser&rdquo; menu in System Preferences. In fact, even after you change your default web browser to Link Unshortener, it still won&rsquo;t appear in the menu, which will incorrectly show Safari as the default web browser.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>It&rsquo;s odd that 2020&rsquo;s iOS and macOS releases both contained (different) bugs related to setting default apps.<\/p>\n\n<p>Why doesn&rsquo;t he just call the API from <a href=\"https:\/\/underpassapp.com\/LinkUnshortener\/\">his app<\/a>? Because the app is in the Mac App Store, and the API doesn&rsquo;t work from sandboxed apps.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/17\/setting-default-apps-in-ios-14\/\">Setting Default Apps in iOS 14<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2020\/09\/01\/setting-default-url-handlers\/\">Setting Default URL Handlers<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff Johnson: macOS 11 Big Sur has a bug that prevents some apps from appearing in the &ldquo;Default web browser&rdquo; menu in the General pane of System Preferences, which of course makes it difficult to set one of those apps as your default web browser.[&#8230;]The developer API for changing your default web browser still works [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2021-01-13T20:31:46Z","apple_news_api_id":"8e301b88-1c83-4f9a-a4f3-7424717467dc","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2022-06-23T21:44:51Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAg==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AjjAbiByDT5qk83QkcXRn3A","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[131,438,2238,30,39,1891,635,53,1181,96],"class_list":["post-31304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-bug","tag-launchservices","tag-link-unshortener","tag-mac","tag-macappstore","tag-macos-11-0","tag-pyobjc","tag-sandboxing","tag-system-preferences","tag-web"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31304"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31317,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31304\/revisions\/31317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}