Browser Options
Various functions in Thingamablog require an external web browser to be
launched from time to time. When a web browser needs to be opened, the
command lines on this tab will be executed in the order they appear until
one of them works. {0} is replaced by the URL to be opened.
The
default behavior of the Browser Launcher is as follows…
Windows – Opens the URL in the system browser by calling a url.dll
that can open the URL using FileProtocolHandler. This dll fails to open
file URLs with spaces. In that case, a URL shortcut is written to the hard
drive, and the shortcut is then opened.
Macintosh – Opens
the URL trying first the using the Cocoa NSWorkspace and then the MRJ
classes provided by Apple. NSWorkspace is used because the MRJ toolkit for
Mac OS X does not implement openURL() yet. This class links to the Cocoa
NSWorkspace and the MRJ dynamically at runtime, so this class will compile
even on computers such as Windows and Linux which do not have the Cocoa
NSWorkspace and the MRJ and installed.
Unix, Linux, and other
systems – Checks to see if the following browsers are in the path
using the ‘which’ command: Mozilla, Netscape, and Lynx. It can open the
URL in any of these browsers.
With the "Browse" button
you can select a specific browser if the defaults don’t meet your
requirements.