Clicking links tries to open Opera as my browser

Any link in mail tries to open Opera. I've never used Opera, and of course it comes up with a "Opera has crashed" with "ignore" or "report".
I can't find a place anywhere in System Prefs or Mail prefs to set my default browser - Firefox has been set as the default from inside Firefox prefs, but this seems to have no affect on Mail at all.
Help?

change the default browser in safari (not Mail) preferences->general.

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