Browsers

To send a document to a browser for viewing, and to select browsers with which to view documents. The browser currently marked in this menu is the one your documents will be sent to when you use 'Send File to Browser'. To change browser, select the browser's menu item to mark it. (You can of course add any kind of program to this menu. Alpha is not so clever that it can tell which ones are browsers.)

Send File to Browser - Launches your browser and sends the document to it.

You can only have one version of each browser in the menu, but you can still send files to any version from Alpha. Let's say you have Netscape 2.0 and 3.0, and that 3.0 is the one which appears in the menu. Now launch Netscape 2.0. Then if you send a window to the browser Alpha will send it to Netscape 2.0 although you had 3.0 selected the menu. If any version of Netscape is running Alpha will send the window to that one.

This is useful when you want to make sure your document looks OK in older versions of Netscape or any other browser, for example to make sure that your megacool JavaScript written for Netscape 3.0 doesn't produce a bazillion error alerts in 2.0.

Two comments about Internet Explorer 3.0 (the only version I have tested):

• If you use Internet Config and have defined Netscape (for example) to be the helper for the file protocol, Internet Explorer will send the file to Netscape. To be able to send files to Internet Explorer either don't define any helper for the file protocol in Internet Config or define it to be Internet Explorer.
• Internet Explorer opens a new window every time you send a file to it. This is not an Alpha bug.

Add... - Lets you select a browser and adds it at the bottom of this menu.

Remove... - To remove a browser from the menu.