Common third-party browsers include Google Chrome, Firefox, and Opera, but you can set any browser that's installed on your Mac as the default browser. So as per the title, I use Chrome on my mac but Safari on my iOS devices. I'm struggling to find a way to sync the bookmarks I add on my Mac computer to Safari as a whole, previously it seemed as though Xmarks was a good solution, but it's defunct. Collectively, just under 40 percent of all Windows traffic uses the default browser: Internet Explorer or its Windows 10-only replacement, Edge. Google's Chrome is the clear first choice, with. There are dozens of different web browsers you could be using, and the exact method for setting them as your default browser is slightly different for each. Here, we'll use Google Chrome as an. Make Chrome your default browser If you make Chrome your default browser, any links you click will open automatically in Chrome. Computer Android iPhone & iPad Set Chrome as your default web browser.

iOS 14 allows for third-party web browsers and email clients to become the default, so if you really don’t like Safari and Apple Mail, you now have other options.

With the latest update to Google Chrome, now available on the App Store, you can change your default browser from Safari to Google Chrome, on iPhone and iPad. Here’s how to do it …

With iOS 14, Apple has added system support for third-party web browsers and email apps. In the future, they may open even more categories.

The default web browser will be used when tapping on a link in any application. Until iOS 14, you could have an alternative browser like Google Chrome but link actions would always open in Safari. Here’s how to change that on iPhone and iPad in iOS 14.

How to set Google Chrome as your default browser on iPhone

• Download the latest version of Google Chrome from the App Store.
• Open the Settings app and open the settings page for Google Chrome.
• Tap ‘Default Browser App’.
• Tap ‘Chrome’.

Emp_udse exe. With this set, any app that triggers a standard open URL activity will now direct the system to open Google Chrome, rather than Safari.

If you ever change your mind, you can go back into Settings and change the Default Browser App back to Safari. If you want to use a different third-party browser that isn’t Chrome, you will have to wait for the developer to update their application. The same goes for changing email apps: so far, we haven’t seen any compatible email app expose this feature.

Obviously, this all requires iOS 14 or iPadOS 14 to be installed. Right now, we are at iOS 14 developer beta 8. Apple is expected to release iOS 14 publicly for all users later in September, with a release date likely announced as part of next week’s Apple Event.

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You would think it would be fairly simple to script changing the default browser to Chrome in macOS. It's not, as far as I can tell! I'd love to be corrected on this.

Script that changes Launch Services

I wrote up a script that changes the default browser silently, but it works well only the first time you run it.

If you run it again to switch to another browser, you may have to reboot for the change to take effect. Sometimes changing the default browser through the GUI and then running the script again will have it work again.

That means it's a bit messy. On the other hand, in terms of practical use, you're not likely to want to script changing the default browser multiple times on one machine—the whole point of scripting it is likely to just make an initial default the user can change later on her own should she choose to, and she can use the GUI to do that.

If you want to use this in conjunction with Outset but not have the settings change for existing users (only new ones), you can use this preinstall script to fake-run the login-once script for each existing user.

I think this is a great option (and not just because I worked hard on it), but I also outline below some other options.

Use Google Chrome As My Default Browser

cdef and defaultbrowser

cdef and defaultbrowser allow you to set the default browser. Unfortunately, as far as I can tell, all that does is pop up the regular GUI 'set default browser' dialogue: Again, if someone knows of a silent option I don't know about, please leave a comment below, and I'll update this entry.

Use Chrome As Default Browser Mac Safari

duti works great.. but not for Chrome

In Using duti to script default applications for Macs, I detail the steps for using duti in general, which works great.. in general. It just chokes on setting the default browser. If you try to use duti to set Chrome as the default browser: