By default when you first install an operating system on your machine, the default web browser that you find will be Internet Explorer on Windows and Safari on Macs…Only some Linux distributions have Firefox as their default browsing program.
It is really easy to set Firefox as default on any OS, but someone might not have had the chance to learn how yet…so here’s how to do it in two easy steps:
- Click on Tools->Options from the toolbar, and the settings menu will open.
- Open the Advanced Tab, and all the way down you will see a “Check Now” button: clicking that will make Firefox check whether or not it is the default web browser on your computer and, if not, it’ll prompt and ask if you wish to make it become the default browsing software.
Just click Yes and you’re done!
Now every time you open an HTML/XML file, a link, or anything that concerns browsing the Internet, Firefox will be the program that the operating system chooses to open that file or page.
