Whichever web browser you use, there are some tips you should remember in order to keep it running optimally.
If you choose so, it will change the System Preferences setting and position itself as the default. Even if Safari is you default browser, you can open any link in another browser, by holding down the Control key when you click on it and selecting Copy Link, then paste it in the address bar of any browser you like.Īpple changed the way you set the default browser in OS X Yosemite and it has remained the same since then.
In fact any task that opens a URL will be performed in that web browser. If you use Spotlight and click on a result from the web, it will open in your default browser. However, there are perfectly good reasons why you might want to use a different browser. Remember that? Safari is a perfectly good web browser and offers most of the features of its competitor web browsers, including autofill for forms and credit card details, secure password storage, and the ability to request that websites do not track you. Before that, for a while, it was Internet Explorer - but the less said about that the better, and before that it was Netscape Navigator. Safari is the default browser in macOS and has been ever since Apple first built its own web browser.
