techee left a comment (geany/geany#4322)

> I don't know what it is, but C:/Program 
> Files/Geany/share/doc/geany/html/index.html#general-startup-preferences is 
> neither an URI nor a file… maybe that's the issue? Not sure why file:/// 
> prefix is missing tho(?)

I think the message is just misleading - `file:///` is still present. The thing 
is that without the `#general-startup-preferences` suffix it works and help 
works when using e.g. `Help->Help`.

> BTW, can't we simply use 
> [gtk_show_uri()](https://docs.gtk.org/gtk3/func.show_uri.html)? just in the 
> hope maybe it didn't exist back in the days when this function was born…

Let's try that - in fact, we actually do this (with the non-deprecated 
`gtk_show_uri_on_window()` variant) on linux when the browser binary isn't 
specified:

https://github.com/geany/geany/blob/d81942fe50bb8783d0e29ec564d3e03ec93c2be0/src/utils.c#L77

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