One common complaint made against Mac OS X is the need to open Safari to set a default browser and to open Mail to set a default email client.

It feels like an unnecessary “Microsoft-like” proprietary tie-in.

A LiveJournal user asked recently if there is a way to avoid this. And there is, as one of the comments on the post points out.

RCDefaultApp is a System Preference Pane that allows you to set you default apps for browsing and email, for URLs, MIME types, file extensions and more:

RCDefaultApp is freeware and is available from the developer’s web site .

Tags: Apple Mail, default email client, mail.app, RCDefaultApp, Safari, setting defaults, system preference pane

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