It was by using these tools that I determined Preferences panel that lets you edit and change Internet Config’s Same for Monkeyfood’s More Internet, a free System (Clauss is the author of iCab.)īut I couldn’t set my default FTP app to Interarchy using MisFox,Įither. MisFox is a free application that allows you to see and changeĪll of the important Internet Config settings: default apps, file One solution, as mentioned above, is to use InternetĪ better option is to use third-party software. The OS just no longer offers a user interface to see andĬhange them. It hasn’t eliminated the underlying Internet Config preferences Check it,Ĭlose prefs, open prefs, and it’d be unchecked again.Īlthough Apple has eliminated the Internet System Preferences panel, Interarchy’s prefs window, this checkbox was unchecked. Interarchy’s prefs, “Use Interarchy for FTP”. You can change this setting at any time using a checkbox in I’d click Yes, quit, relaunch, and but it would Prompt me with a dialog asking if I’d like to use Interarchy as theĭefault FTP client. Interarchy 7’s preferences window allows you to specify it as theĪfter the problem started, each time I launched Interarchy, it would And given that the author of Interarchy is Peter N Lewis -Ĭo-inventor of Internet Config - it’s not surprising that Mailsmith, forĮxample, now provides a button in its preferences window to set itĪs the default email client, obviating the need to do so via Apple Third-party developers are forging ahead, however. Safari to tell the system that you’d rather use FireFox. Thus, Safari and Apple Mail provide preferences to specifyĭefault apps for web and email. Individual applications to provide a way to set default protocol Now that the Internet System Prefs panel is gone, it’s up to This always struck me as a very odd decision on Stores its own IE-specific private preferences inside the InternetĬonfig preferences. Modify these system-wide Internet Config settings, but it also The only way to see these prefs using software that ships with On Panther, however, the Internet System Preferences panel is no It was useful, popular, and widely supported by theĭevelopers of Internet client software for the Mac. Implemented, and released for free by Quinn “The Eskimo!” and Peter Internet Config wasn’t invented by Apple. System 7, you used the Internet Config application, which is where On Mac OS 8 and 9, you used the Internet Control Panel. Settings via the Internet panel in System Preferences. In older versions of Mac OS X, you could change some of these OS X’s Help Viewer is the default handler for the ‘help:’ protocol.) Protocols aren’t even necessarily Internet-related for example, Mac Helpers for specific protocols like ‘http:’, ‘afp:’, ‘gopher:’, etc. You can specify default helper apps forĭifferent tasks - email, FTP, web browsing, Usenet - as well as Internet Config provides a group of system-wide preferencesįor Internet-related stuff. Brief Interpolation on the History of Internet Config (Feel Free to Skip This Entire Section if You’re a Long-Time Mac User or if You’ve Arrived Here via Google and Are Just Looking for the Solution to the Same Problem I Had) To be with my Internet Config preferences. Thus, even though it was specific to Interarchy, the problem seemed Interarchy create fresh ones, but to no avail. Reverting to Interarchy 7.0, neither of which helped and (c) IĪrchived and removed my existing Interarchy preferences, letting Re-downloaded and re-installed Interarchy 7.1.1, and also tried Other Interarchy 7 users seem to have the problem (b) I Might be a manifestation of (a), of course, but that’s not aīut none of those were the source of my problem, because: (a) no Interarchy preferences had somehow become corrupted (which, if true, It was just my FTP helper, and it was only blocking me from setting itīeing that it was specific to Interarchy, I of course suspected thatĮither (a) there was some sort of bug in Interarchy 7.1.1 or (b) myĬopy of Interarchy had somehow become corrupted or (c) my Preferences - for my email client and web browser - were Interarchy, the one I wanted to set it to. I could set it to point to any other FTP client, just not Unset, and, worse, I was unable to reset it to point to Interarchy. Interarchy 7.1.1, the setting for my preferred FTP client became Last week, however, at some point shortly after upgrading to Months ago, after the release of Interarchy 7. My preferred default FTP client is Interarchy. Fixing Corrupt Preferences for Default Internet Helpers Wednesday, The Problem
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