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Control of Browser

 [1/3] from: dness:home at: 20-Jun-2001 21:50


I regularly use IE, Netscape and Opera. How can I control choice of the broswer invoked by a `[browse ...]' from inside a REBOL script? Better yet, can someone point me to how I find out the answer to questions like this (then I wouldn't have to bother anyone)?

 [2/3] from: sterling::rebol::com at: 20-Jun-2001 19:58


BROWSE calls the user's 'preferred' browser. Under Windows this means it has been looked up in the registry for the .html file association. Under *NIX type systems only Netscape is supported currently. You do not have control over which one is launched. Sterling

 [3/3] from: dness:home at: 20-Jun-2001 23:44


[sterling--rebol--com] wrote:
> BROWSE calls the user's 'preferred' browser. Under Windows this means > it has been looked up in the registry for the .html file association. > Under *NIX type systems only Netscape is supported currently. You do > not have control over which one is launched. > > Sterling
Well, not quite. I have a (windows) system where .html is associated with Opera, but REBOL goes for NetScape. But it may be finding it somewhere else in the registry. Anyway, it's too bad that this is wired down. For me it would be very nice if I could have a REBOL button to re-designate which browser to use. I guess it can't do everything, though.