Mail treats Safari as default browser

I'm using Mac OS X 10.5.6
Whenever i open a link from Mail.app or i right click and press search google, Safari opens up instead of my default Browser Firefox !
What to do ?

For some reason, Safari always opens if you use Search in Google through Mail, regardless of the default browser. I've always had that issue, though now I'm running Safari 4 Public Beta.
However, clicking Mail links does bring up the proper browser. I seems as if the context menus on Leopard for Search in Google are "hard-coded" to Safari instead of respecting the default browser settings.

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