[Python-Dev] webbrowser.py

Eric S. Raymond esr@thyrsus.com
Wed, 24 Jan 2001 11:53:31 -0500


Trent Mick <trentm@ActiveState.com>:
> How will the expected adherence of apps to BROWSER jive with the current (and
> poorly understood by me) Windows convention of specifying the "default"
> browser somewhere in the registry? 

BROWSER overrides the registry setting.  Which is OK; under Windows, only
wizards are going to muck with it.
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