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Terry J. Reedy added the comment:
I do not know if 'must' is true on all systems, but I certainly think we should
say that a full url 'might be required' to succeed.
On win7, C:/program files (86)/mozilla firefox (until mozilla decides to
distribute a 64-bit version ;-).
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Ezio Melotti added the comment:
On WinXP, if I try firefox bugs.python.org, I get an error because it can not
find firefox in the PATH. This is probably what happens with
_isexecutable(firefox).
However if I try C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\firefox.exe
bugs.python.org, Firefox correctly
Terry J. Reedy added the comment:
Before closing #8936, I realized that perhaps my user default browser *is*
being called but is returning an error code. It does not really matter, where
the error code comes from. I think 'using the default browser' should be
expanded to ''using the first
Terry J. Reedy added the comment:
I no longer think we should touch the url; just pass it to each browser in
turn, as needed, and let the user get the result.
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Terry J. Reedy tjre...@udel.edu added the comment:
Upon further experimentation, I realize that I can only open in Firefox because
I have it set as my default browser. It would otherwise be inaccessible because
it is not in the _browser registry. It also appears that I cannot intentionally
