Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] FYI: Starting webbrowser from Help->Ethereal Online

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From: Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2004 13:30:56 -0500
Ulf Lamping wrote:
> Hi List!
> 
>  Add experimental feature of opening a webbrowser, to show some of the
>  webpages from http://www.ethereal.com. This functionality is copied from
>  the Gimp.

This is pretty neat.  Would it be useful to link to other site content?
 For example, if we had some sort of protocol reference on the site,
should we link to that as well?

>  Win32 will use ShellExecute to use the system registered webbrowser.
>  On unix builds, currently the mozilla browser is hardcoded, we still
> need a
>  preference setting for this (I will add this later).

Works fine here on Windows with Mozilla set as my default browser.