Dan(Tasanar)

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So I was wondering if anyone had ever worked on / even possible a system that when you used, lets say the help system, to pull up a website it could detect the default browser.

As of right now it only seems to pull Internet Explorer. What happens when IE is no longer supported and fully replaced with Edge?

Something else I noticed, and this may very well be a bug, was that when you use an item or a system that prompts your website to open, if you are using the Ehnanced Client you will see the system message but no browser is actually opened.
 
Hey, old thread, but this has been bugging me and others on Excelsior. We use client 5.0.9, and we have a few scripts that in a way almost rely on this working correctly. Just found a fix for this issue.

It seems that the Client doesn't use the common way to launch the default browser, which would be to start the process named "http://...", recognized by Windows as a website and launching the default browser.

Instead, it looks up a registry key, to find what program handles a file type named "HtmlFile" (not http protocol, or .html extension).

Long story short:
1. Open Regedit and go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\htmlfile\shell\open\command
2. Open the (Default) key and edit it's value to: "C:\Program Files\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe"

Detailed info here: Fix Browser Opening - UO Excelsior Wiki - Ultima Online Free Shard

(The browser might not open at all, this seems to be a more common issue recently, as Internet Explorer is being uninstalled from Windows.)
 
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