[PATCH 2/2] winebrowser: Open the default browser if called without an argument.

Zebediah Figura z.figura12 at gmail.com
Thu Aug 3 11:24:45 CDT 2017


On 08/03/2017 01:24 AM, Alexandre Julliard wrote:
> Vincent Povirk <madewokherd at gmail.com> writes:
> 
>>> I'd suggest to simply open the default start page in that case. That's
>>> what iexplore does when there are no arguments.
>>
>> That's the intent. We don't know what the default start page is for
>> the user's default browser, but it should open it when started with no
>> arguments.
> 
> I don't mean the default page for the Unix browser, the behavior is
> apparently not guaranteed in that case. I mean get the default page
> configured on the Windows side, and open that. This way we don't need to
> worry about what the Unix browser will do with no arguments.
> 

The program in question loads the value of 
HKCR/htmlfile/shell/open/command and calls it with no arguments. If I 
change that to something other than iexplore, the behaviour is left up 
to that program. So I'm not sure that just following iexplore's 
behaviour is necessarily appropriate.



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