Default browser greyed and reverting

trying to get a unique & precise subject there..
im having trouble setting my default browser.
i know from the posts that the system wide setting is in safari. i've also tried (as per a post i read) to get rid of "com.apple.Safari.plist" but it always reverts. it not only reverts to safari but also the setting is greyed out and i cant change it..
i think that it might have something to do with the fact that there are 2 admins on this machine but i could just be making that up..
any ideas?

Chukki wrote:
Thanks for the suggestion.
I deleted the preferences with no change.. Created a new user and again it was greyed out.
sorry, if the same is happening on a new user it's a system wide problem and a strange one at that. I really don't know what could be causing this or how one might fix it short of doing an archive and install.
An interesting thing is that when I re-install Firefox, the Safari preference automatically reverts to the default web browser as Firefox... even if I have a volume mounted with Firefox on it, the OS will try and open that remote application. This says to me that that preference is indeed stored somewhere else whilst being managed by Safari.
that's true. it's stored in launch services database which is specific to every user. since you say your computer is stand alone and you are not using managed users I can't imagine what else could do this and why it would affect a newly created user.

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