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by diggan 607 days ago
I'm not on a macOS machine right now, so can't show you any specific examples, but scattered links/actions across Apple applications still open Safari from time to time (I think Xcode was especially gnarly for a long time), as it seems at one point Apple hardwired the links/actions to open Safari rather than the user set browser. Search for `site:discussions.apple.com wrong browser` in your favorite search engine and you'll get some actual examples.
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Back when I used to run Chrome, I noticed one case that would do this (it was buried in Spotlight), but it didn't seem intentional (especially because web search results in Spotlight always respected the default browser setting, and showed the correct browser icon as well). I use Safari now though, so I won't be finding any more cases like that anytime soon.