webbrowser.open question force Firefox

[Thomas Jollans]

On Monday 06 August 2007, dimitri pater wrote:
> Hi,
> I have a question regarding the use of webbrowser.open.
> On a windows XP machine, MS-IE is set as the default browser so when I do:
> webbrowser.open('http://localhost:8080') IE starts with this address.
> But in stead of launching IE, I want to launch Firefox *without* setting
> Firefox as the default browser globally on this machine.
>
> Any hints, ideas? Your help is most appreciated.

take an educated guess where to find firefox, check if it's there, and do 
something like
  os.spawnl(os.P_NOWAIT, where_firefox_is, "http://localhost:8080")



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