I’m using 2.6.16 as well. I don’t think it has ever worked for me though. (not 
sure exactly which version I started on when I moved to Mac, probably somewhere 
around 2.6.12 or so.)

> On Jun 15, 2017, at 3:24 PM, Eric Theise <ericthe...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> In case you two are talking about a yet unreleased version, I apologize for 
> introducing noise, but I'm using 2.6.16 on OS 10.12.5 and, from the Help > 
> Tutorial and Concepts Guide, Chrome opens up an unstyled page from 
> file:///private/var/folders/... and the links it contains work just fine.
> 
> 
> On Wed, Jun 14, 2017 at 8:09 PM, John Ralls <jra...@ceridwen.us 
> <mailto:jra...@ceridwen.us>> wrote:
> 
> > On Jun 14, 2017, at 9:00 AM, Adrien Monteleone <adrien.montele...@gmail.com 
> > <mailto:adrien.montele...@gmail.com>> wrote:
> >
> > Tested everything. Also tested with default browser as Safari, 
> > Chromium-canary, Opera, Vivaldi, and Firefox Developer Edition.
> >
> > Nothing happens when I click anything in the help menu or any context help 
> > buttons.
> >
> > I do see that there are links in the GnuCash directory pointing to Help & 
> > the Guide.
> >
> > Personally, it’s not a big deal for me because I know where to find those 
> > docs already online, but those menu entries and buttons should work.
> >
> > Should I expect to find something in the logs when those are fired? or if 
> > they fail?
> >
> 
> I completely agree that it should work and I think it strange that it does 
> for me and not for you. I wonder if there’s some obscure defaults setting 
> that either blocks or allows it.
> 
> There won’t be anything in the logs, and since it’s just pushing the URI off 
> to the default browser I’m not sure that GnuCash will even know whether it 
> succeeds or fails. Something might show up in Console but I wouldn’t bet on 
> it.
> 
> Regards,
> John Ralls
> 
> >> On May 28, 2017, at 9:21 AM, Adrien Monteleone 
> >> <adrien.montele...@gmail.com <mailto:adrien.montele...@gmail.com>> wrote:
> >>
> >>> On May 27, 2017, at 11:52 PM, John Ralls <jra...@ceridwen.us 
> >>> <mailto:jra...@ceridwen.us>> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>> On May 27, 2017, at 9:49 PM, John Ralls <jra...@ceridwen.us 
> >>>> <mailto:jra...@ceridwen.us>> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>>> On May 27, 2017, at 9:25 PM, Adrien Monteleone 
> >>>>> <adrien.montele...@gmail.com <mailto:adrien.montele...@gmail.com>> 
> >>>>> wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Thanks, I’ll have to try installing again. Maybe something is amiss 
> >>>>> with the bundle I downloaded. I’m still getting no response from those 
> >>>>> menu entries. And I don’t see any help buttons in any window anywhere. 
> >>>>> Not sure where those ‘Context help buttons’ are supposed to be.
> >>>>
> >>>> Seems pretty unlikely that a download error could lose the documentation 
> >>>> and still have a valid signature. More likely your default browser is 
> >>>> rejecting the page load signal for some reason. Eh, what locale do you 
> >>>> use? It occurs to me that I might have messed up so that it works only
> >>
> >> I didn’t think a corrupt download would cause that either, but wasn’t sure 
> >> what might be the issue.
> >>>
> >>> Oops, got distracted and hit send before I was finished. I might have 
> >>> messed up so that it works only if your locale matches one of the 
> >>> existing translations, English, German, Italian, and Japanese. I see that 
> >>> I forgot to add the new Portuguese docs to the bundle.
> >>
> >> My locale is English-US. My default browser is Firefox. It normally runs 
> >> in private mode. Perhaps that has something to do with it? I’ll test with 
> >> private mode off and I’ll also test with other browsers as the default and 
> >> see what happens. I’ll also test FF with no extensions. One of them might 
> >> be interfering. (I suspect uBlock Origin as that is usually the culprit 
> >> when something isn’t working right)
> >>
> >>>
> >>> Regards,
> >>> John Ralls
> >>>
> >>
> >
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