Anybody know of a script to get someone’s default web browser and mail client? I searched around on this site a bit, but I couldn’t find a script that works on my mac.
Any help is appreciated 
Model: MacBook Pro
AppleScript: 2.1.2
Operating System: Mac OS X (10.6)
hello,
path to the browser:
set x to do shell script "defaults read com.apple.LaunchServices | grep 'http;' | cut -d \\\" -f 2"
tell application "Finder" to application file id x as alias
path the mail client:
set x to do shell script "defaults read com.apple.LaunchServices | grep 'mailto' | cut -d \\\" -f 2"
tell application "Finder" to application file id x as alias
Both of those compile but get a Finder error on my machines (10.5.8 or 10.6.3)
Finder got an error: An error of type -10814 has occurred.
Sorry Adam, I tested my script on my old 10.4.11
Hi,
in Leopard and higher com.apple.LaunchServices.plist has a slightly different structure.
This is a reliable handler for > 10.4 to retrieve the default browser and mail client.
It considers also a missing entry for http, that’s the status, if the default browser has never been changed
tell application "Finder" to set defaultBrowser to application file id (my default_service("http")) as alias
tell application "Finder" to set defaultMailClient to application file id (my default_service("mailto")) as alias
on default_service(p)
tell (system attribute "sysv") to set MacOS_version to it mod 4096 div 16
if MacOS_version < 5 then
set {a1, a2} to {2, 1}
else
set {a1, a2} to {1, 2}
end if
set pListpath to (path to preferences as Unicode text) & "com.apple.LaunchServices.plist"
tell application "System Events"
repeat with i in property list items of property list item 1 of contents of property list file pListpath
if value of property list item a2 of i is p then
return value of property list item a1 of i
end if
end repeat
if p is "http" then
return "com.apple.Safari"
else if p is "mailto" then
return "com.apple.Mail"
else
return ""
end if
end tell
end default_service
Thanks very much for that Stefan. The default mail client works, but default browser doesn’t
Also, how would I use this in ASOC?