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Published 20 hours ago • verified publisher icon apexskier

Even though Safari is blocked as default it still opens

Open Michael-Z-Freeman opened this issue 2 years ago • 3 comments

Hi. This is when using the "Search with Google" menu item that shows in all the Apple apps.

Michael-Z-Freeman avatar Feb 23 '23 11:02 Michael-Z-Freeman

This is because that menu item on macOS is hard coded to use Safari. I'm not sure if Apple are going to change that, but the only way to find out is to file feedback with them. https://feedbackassistant.apple.com

gingerbeardman avatar May 24 '23 20:05 gingerbeardman

This is because that menu item on macOS is hard coded to use Safari. I'm not sure if Apple are going to change that, but the only way to find out is to file feedback with them. https://feedbackassistant.apple.com

Creating a Apple Shortcuts task does open the browser set as default (rather than Safari) - https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/b34b03210ecb4fd5be1935b18ef9e2b3

Michael-Z-Freeman avatar May 25 '23 07:05 Michael-Z-Freeman

Here's an Automator workflow that does the same thing, I find these more performant than Shortcuts.

Search for Selected Text.workflow.zip

I created this one with help from this stackoverflow answer https://superuser.com/a/331132/33005

gingerbeardman avatar May 25 '23 14:05 gingerbeardman