applescriptmacos
I've written an AppleScript that I want to set as the default browser.
I've added a CFBundleDocumentTypes section to the p-list (copied from Safari) and rebuilt the launch services database, but that didn't work.
The script doesn't show up in the Safari default browser list. If I choose it manually in that preferences dialog, it's ignored, and Safari becomes the default browser.
If you saved your AppleScript as application and declared that it can handle the http and https URL scheme in its Info.plist file, you simply need to update its modification date e.g. by running touch "My Program.app" in Terminal, or moving it to a different folder and back again in Finder.
Launch Services will then pick up the change automatically. You will need to restart Safari to update the browser list.
My experience is that you can no longer define an AppleScript applet as the default handler upfront by the Info.plist. And, if you try, by including LSIsAppleDefaultForScheme in your Info.plist, that applet will no longer even be allowed as a handler for the URL type at all. After upgrading to Yosemite, my applet would no longer be called when I clicked a link using my custom protocol. I instead got the not-handled system error when clicking the link. Once I removed LSIsAppleDefaultForScheme, it began to work again.
It seems perhaps more difficult to get Mac OS X to recognize alternate handlers for http and https. When I tried setting my Info.plist for those, the applet failed to show as an option for "Default web browser" in the General system preference pane. However, the third-party preference panel RCDefaultApp was able to see and set my applet as the handler for the http protocol by using its URLs section, and that seemed to work. However, even that was a bit odd: if the applet wasn't open but a different applet with a different BundleID was open, the first time I click an http link brought that other applet to the front, rather than launching the correct one.
So, long story short: I'm not sure I have a perfect solution for this, but perhaps RCDefaultApp will help you get it working in a way that works for you.
Best Answer
Have you tried adding the
CFBundleURLTypesand the sub-keyLSIsAppleDefaultForScheme?Not sure that it will help, but I have noticed these keys in the info.plist of all the apps that I have checked that show up in that browser list.