Why does Safari (and other OS programs) provide only one option for launching an application?

I greatly appreciate the improvements that came with the Mavericks OS, but either I cannot figure it out, or there is more that Apple can improve. Firefox is my default browser that opens when I click a link. (I do this because I can set Firefox to private browsing, which decreases cookies, history, etc.) When I click on a link in Mail that I want to open in Safari, however, e.g., a link for GotoMeeting, I have only two options: (1) open with Firefox or (2) open in reader. It would be superb if there was at least one additional option to open the link in Safari, where it nicely integrates with Calendar and allows me to keep that event in history. It would be even better if I had more options to open other programs.
Am I missing something? Is this already an option that I have not yet discovered?
Many thanks for a great update to Mountain Lion!

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