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Stop firefox from opeing photos from my hard drive.

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DonovanWilton
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Lately, when I open a photo on my hard drive whether it be a .jpg, .tiff, or .pdf, it automatically opens in a firefox window. I go and change the default settings to open in Preview and everything works fine for about 2 minutes. Then afterwords, Firefox becomes the default again. Frustrating. Any ideas on what's going on and how to keep my default settings to preview.

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Lately, when I open a photo on my hard drive whether it be a .jpg, .tiff, or .pdf, it automatically opens in a firefox window. I go and change the default settings to open in Preview and everything works fine for about 2 minutes. Then afterwords, Firefox becomes the default again. Frustrating. Any ideas on what's going on and how to keep my default settings to preview. Thanks

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WestEnd
WestEnd
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Did you click on the file properties to see what it is associated with?

DonovanWilton
DonovanWilton Question owner
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Yes. I'm using a Mac so I'm guessing file properties are the same as "Get Info". At the bottom there's a section called "Open with" which also keeps changing back to Firefox no matter how many times I change it to Preview.

WestEnd
WestEnd
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Did you also look online for this problem? I did a simple search and found something related...

https://superuser.com/questions/640730/mac-os-x-file-associations-keep-changing-though-reverting-it-manually