Whenever any Mac user starts Lotus Notes their “Internet Browser” setting under “Lotus Notes → Preferences → Location Preferences” defaults to “2” because it is probably looking for IE and it doesn’t find it, as when a Windows user starts Lotus Notes. Is there anyway to setup Lotus so when a Mac user starts Lotus Notes, this setting is automatically set to “Safari”?
Thank you,
~Peter
Subject: Default Internet browser in Location Preferences…
I don’t have a Mac to test it on, but, I launch Firefox- in the location document you mention, there is a down arrow- once choice is “other” where it allows you to explore your hard drive for the executable you want to launch- find Safari’s executable and it should work- I’m also guessing if you googlesafari and lotus notes site:ibm.com
you will find an answer.
Subject: RE: Default Internet browser in Location Preferences…
360 responses to that google seach btw
Subject: RE: Default Internet browser in Location Preferences…
Thanks for the quick reply Thomas. I do know how to manually change the preference, but the problem is that this must be done every time I start up Lotus Notes. It always reverts to the IE setting. So I was wondering how to override this default behavior.
Thank you,
~Peter
Subject: RE: Default Internet browser in Location Preferences…
Are you sure that there is no policy effective for those users? That’s should be the only reason, why manually applied changes are overridden after a restart. Did you check, that changes to the location document are actually saved?
Subject: RE: Default Internet browser in Location Preferences…
Thank you for the response. The problem essentially is the policy. What I’m looking to do is override the policy on a local level. Is this something that would necessitate a macro?
Best regards,
~Peter
Subject: RE: Default Internet browser in Location Preferences…
Well, the intention of policies is just to override any local settings …
… that’s why they were invented.
The only correct way to deal with this issue is, to have the administrator create a policy for all users on a Mac that specifies a different default browser. One could try and write a macro, that adds a SaveOptions item with a value of “0” to the location document, but this really is no solution.