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.