![]() ![]() If you have Homebrew installed, you can get it easily withīrew install -cask swiftdefaultappsprefpane ![]() It’s written in the Swift language, and so is called SwiftDefaultApps. Unfortunately, it doesn’t work in recent MacOS versions due to changes in the support for Objective-C - the language in which it was written.Īll of which is background information to the fact that Gregorio Litenstein has created a handy new Preference pane that allows you to change these mappings. Well, there used to be a utility called RCDefaultApp, and if you search for solutions to this problem, you’ll find many references to it. So how could I tell Safari (and the Mac more generally) that I now wanted RSS and Atom feeds to be handled by a different app? It’s not exposed in the settings of Safari, and not available in System Preferences. At some point in the past, I must have registered Reeder as my default news feed app, though I can’t remember whether the app did it directly or whether I used the facilities in earlier versions of MacOS or a third-party app to make the association. In my case, it starts up ‘Reeder’ a fine app, but not one I currently use, having switched to News Explorer a few years back. On the Mac, it’s pretty easy to change the default browser, the default email program, and the app that gets fired up when you double-click on a particular file type in the Finder.īut when you’re in Safari and you click on a link to an RSS Feed, what happens then? ![]() This is one of those ‘in case you’re Googling for it’ posts. ![]()
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