iMac Users | Indian Mac Users » Browser http://www.imacusers.com Indian Mac Users Sat, 14 Nov 2009 13:42:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc en hourly 1 Links open in Mobile Safari which then crashes? http://www.imacusers.com/links-open-in-mobile-safari-which-then-crashes/ http://www.imacusers.com/links-open-in-mobile-safari-which-then-crashes/#comments Sun, 05 Oct 2008 17:13:39 +0000 deepak http://www.imacusers.com/?p=78 I use Safari’s (and Dashboard’s) Web Clip feature to keep a track of latest news on Rediff.com. The red arrow in the screenshot below points to Rediff’s main headline section, which I use as a Web Clip.

Rediff Web Clip

Clicking on a link in a Web Clip, usually opens a new Safari window with that link. I had a weird thing happen to me after installing the iPhone SDK and the recent Mac OS 10.5.5 update. The links would try and launch Mobile Safari that comes with iPhone SDK’s iPhone emulator, which would crash immediately with the message: “The application MobileSafari quit unexpectedly.”

The application MobileSafari quit unexpectedly

The same thing then started happening to hyperlinks in my e-mails. It then occurred to me that somehow, my default browser had been set to Mobile Safari. All I had to do was go to Safari’s Preferences dialog and change it to something more reasonable (Safari, Firefox or Opera) and things were fine again.

Setting a browser as the default one in Safari

Minor rant – I find it ironical that to change your default browser, you have to go through the preference pane of another browser (which thereby acts a gatekeeper for other browsers on your system). I think this setting should be a part of the System Preferences pane.

]]> http://www.imacusers.com/links-open-in-mobile-safari-which-then-crashes/feed/ 6 Flash player 10 Beta 2 available for Mac OSX http://www.imacusers.com/flash-player-10-beta-2-available-for-mac-osx/ http://www.imacusers.com/flash-player-10-beta-2-available-for-mac-osx/#comments Fri, 04 Jul 2008 02:32:37 +0000 KSB http://www.imacusers.com/?p=20 If Flash player 9 was a resource hog for your browsers and Flash player 10 beta was too buggy for you (read could not hit YouTube and other Flash player buttons), Adobe has just released the beta 2 of Flash Player 10.

Besides fixing the above mentioned problems it has some new features including -

  • Enhanced Audio APIs
  • Limited Fullscreen Keyboard Access (Good for making Fullscreen games. You can now receive key events for non-printing keys such as arrows, shift, enter etc.)
  • Loader.unloadAndStop (Read here why it was a problem)
  • Vector printing on Macs works now

Read here for a list of new features in Flash 10 and other bug fixes in this build.

Please note that to you will have to first uninstall the current version of Flash player, then you can install this version.

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