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I installed iTerm2 the other day, and was playing around with it. In the process I seemed to have messed up the handling of HTTP hyperlinks on my system. Sometimes (annoyingly, not every time, which is very confusing - I can't spot a pattern) when I click an HTTP link in the Twitter app, MS Word, and so on, it opens a new iTerm2 terminal window or tab, and the webpage doesn't open. How can I get back to the original behavior and have the link open in the default web browser?

I've already checked the iTerm2 preferences - under "URL schemes", no scheme is selected:

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    Try to reassign the URL schemes using RCDefaultApp.
    – Daniel Beck
    Feb 5, 2013 at 17:02
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    If there is an entry for it in ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.LaunchServices.plist, try deleting it and restarting.
    – Lri
    Feb 5, 2013 at 17:30
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    Lauri, your answer worked. https (not http) was associated with iTerm2, not Safari - hence the "random" behavior. I've fixed that now. If you change your comment to an answer, I can mark it.
    – Andrew Ferrier
    Feb 5, 2013 at 19:08
  • Andrew, could you copypaste the solution to an answer and mark the question as solve, please? I'd rather not steal Lauri's reputation but it's preferable you get it than I do.
    – GhostLyrics
    May 13, 2013 at 16:03

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Check the file associations for both HTTP & HTTPS, make sure both are set to Safari.

A simple way to do this would be using RCDefaultApp

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Answered as Community Wiki just so we don't have a dangling question when there's a perfectly good answer in the comments.

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Set Safari to be your default web browser.

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  • How do you do that?
    – mmmmmm
    Jun 28, 2015 at 14:34

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