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OS X lets you set default apps. I had Chrome set as my default browser for a while.

• jedmeyers 11y ago
  And it even supports handoff from iOS Safari.
• harel 11y ago
  Is that just Safari with a Chrome chrome?
  • y2bd 11y ago
    He's talking about OSX (desktop), where Chrome indeed is the Chrome you'd expect.
    • harel 11y ago
      Of course... Thanks
• readams 11y ago
  Try changing the app that launches when you press play/pause on the Mac keyboard. Go ahead. I'll wait.
  • ryanmarsh 11y ago
    I just had to look down ... and yep there they are. I had no idea these were on my keyboard. Never used 'em.
    • tripzilch 11y ago
      For a long time, me neither. Didn't trust those weird "media keys" and indeed expected them to just pop up some default app I never use. Until I accidentally hit them on Linux and it turned out they do exactly what you'd expect. Now I use them all the time :) In particular the play/pause and volume buttons.
  • Bud 11y ago
    Can do that with any number of keyboard macro apps.
  • amatix 11y ago
    Seems to drive Spotify on my OSX without me doing anything special... ?
    • byroot 11y ago
      Once it's running yes. But if you close Spotify, pressing the play key will start iTunes. It's quite infuriating.
      • dietrichepp 11y ago
        This kind of thing has actually improved over time, though. It used to be (back in 10.6, at least) that the play/pause buttons always affected iTunes, even if you had, say, VLC running. It would just also affect VLC.
      • mercury_craze 11y ago
        Also try clicking a mailto link. I'm sure that about once a day I see the dialog asking me to add an account into the default mail app. Basic integrations between MS Office apps also seem to be missing, I'll be damned if I can find the menu to send a copy of the document I'm working on in Word to a contact in outlook.
        • ino 11y ago
          Mailto links open chrome with a gmail tab for me.
          • mercury_craze 11y ago
            I just successfully changed it, but it was a janky experience. Until I added an account to the mail app, the preference used to change the default email reader remained greyed out because I was being prompted to add an email account. Only once I added a fake account did the preference option become available and let me change the default mailto handler. Removing the fake email account caused the preference to become greyed out (but it retained Outlook as the default). Here's another example: Try and change the right click -> search with google menu option to 1) not open in Safari and 2) search using another search engine.
  • grimmfang 11y ago
    Check out Magic Keys https://www.gearmusicplayer.com/extras.html https://www.gearmusicplayer.com/extras.html
  • geon 11y ago
    If VLC is launched, then that's what starts playing.