Fix bug where Choosy is disabled on startup
Choosy is installed and working beautifully, and set as standard browser in Safari. Until I restart... Almost every time I restart (I'd say 80-90 % of the time), Choosy has disabled itself in the System Preferences and Safari has taken the position of default browser.
So the first thing I need to do when I restart the computer is to go to System Preferences, click OK in the "Choosy is disabled" dialogue box (that's a very annoying little box), and check "Enable Choosy for links" and Enable Choosy for HTML files".
This was the case in the beta versions and is still the case after I upgraded to 1.0.
Very annoying.
Probably not intentional.
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I’m still looking into this, but it seems to have more to do with the OS than Choosy.
This issues can sometimes be related to using File Vault. If you are using File Vault you could try disabling it. See this post on SuperUser for more information:
http://superuser.com/questions/2735
If you’re not using File Vault there are some suggestions about resetting your Launch Services settings in this Apple Forum thread: http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=8965818
If none of that helps, please leave a comment letting me know.
Sorry for the inconvenience.
17 comments
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Ted
commented
I have a similar problem where Choosy stops after leaving machine idle. Every morning I must turn Choosy off, and turn back on.
MBP running 10.7.3
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Kyle Ridolfo commented
I have a feeling it gets disabled when another browser becomes the default browser for my system. I instructed Chrome to stop asking to be the default browser and that seems to have helped.
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Mark Andrus
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I played around with my browser's setting and seem to have fixed it, I made the following changes to each of my browsers preferences.
Safari: Select Choosy as the default browser.
Firefox: Uncheck the "Always check to see if Firefox is the default browser on startup" (on the Advanced tab under General)
Chrome: Make sure that Chrome is not set as your default browser. (If it is then you need to enable Choosy then quit Chrome then reopen it up again, and when the yellow notification bar asks you to set Chrome as your default browser make sure you click the button to "Never ask again")
I am fairly certain that the Chrome setting was the culprit for me because once I reset it as the default browser it disables Choosy. Anyway, if you set all three of the browsers to the above settings then it should never disable again and Choosy will work great!
Hope this helps...
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dekekincaid
commented
This issue seemed to go away around the time I installed either 10.6.5 or 10.6.6.
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Mark Andrus
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I am still having this very annoying issue, and as it seems I am not alone. Is there anyone on the Choosy team looking into this problem? Please address soon!
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Reuben
commented
+1 same problem. File vault is disabled. Have repaired permissions. Have even uninstalled and reinstalled choosy.
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David
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VERY ANNOYING. This bug happens time & time again for me! Please fix this issue. Also I am not using File Vault either.
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Mark Andrus
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This bug happened again today and this problem is starting to drive me away from using Choosy at all, please address this issue. Also I am not using File Vault so doesn't seem to be the culprit.
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Mark Andrus
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I am having this same issue with Choosy disabling randomly. It is almost unusable due the amount of times this problem occurs. Please help with this fix!!!!
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dekekincaid
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file vault isn't on
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dekekincaid
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Same thing, mine randomly just turns off and I have to go into the preferences and turn it back on again. Very annoying.
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victor navone
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Same problem here. Choosy turns itself off, and Safari preferences keep reverting to Safari as my default browser. Vexing...
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Adriano Castro
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I've been trialing Choosy for the past month or so and every so often it'll disable itself. This happens even without me restarting my computer (I often have uptime of over 20 days). It's possible that putting the computer to sleep does it but I'm almost certain it disables itself out of nowhere in the middle of working day. I love Choosy and now that my trial is about to end I'm interested in purchasing it but this particular annoyance is putting me off.
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peterfarsinsen
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Seeing the same issue here on 10.6.2 and Choosy 1.0.1. I can't quite figure out the pattern, but it's very annoying.
Any fixes in the make?
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Bill Sodeman
commented
bump: is there any fix coming for this issue?
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Chris Puleo
commented
I'm experiencing the same issue. See: http://uservoice.com/a/B1Feb
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Bill Sodeman
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I have the same problem on Leopard and on Snow Leopard. Any fix coming for this?
